Language-based security on Android
Abstract
In this paper, we initiate a formal study of security on An-droid: Google’s new open-source platform for mobile de-vices. Specifically, we present a core typed language to de-scribe Android applications, and to reason about their data-flow security properties. Our operational semantics and type system provide some necessary foundations to help both users and developers of Android applications deal with their security concerns- text
- Categories and Subject Descriptors D.4.6 [Operating Sys- tems
- Security and Protection—Access controls
- Verifi- cation
- D.3.3 [Programming Languages
- Language Con- structs and Features—Control constructs General Terms Security
- Languages
- Verification Keywords data-flow security
- hybrid type system
- mobile code
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