Opacity is a general behavioural security scheme flexible enough to account
for several specific properties. Some secret set of behaviors of a system is
opaque if a passive attacker can never tell whether the observed behavior is a
secret one or not. Instead of considering the case of static observability
where the set of observable events is fixed off line or dynamic observability
where the set of observable events changes over time depending on the history
of the trace, we consider Orwellian partial observability where unobservable
events are not revealed unless a downgrading event occurs in the future of the
trace. We show how to verify that some regular secret is opaque for a regular
language L w.r.t. an Orwellian projection while it has been proved undecidable
even for a regular language L w.r.t. a general Orwellian observation function.
We finally illustrate relevancy of our results by proving the equivalence
between the opacity property of regular secrets w.r.t. Orwellian projection and
the intransitive non-interference property
