Confidentiality analysis of mobile systems

Abstract

We propose an abstract interpretation-based analysis for automatically detecting all potential interactions between the agents of a part of a mobile system, without much knowledge about the rest of it. We restrict our study to mobile systems written in the η-calculus, and introduce a non-standard semantics which restores the link between channels and the processes that have created them. This semantics also allows to describe the interaction between a system and an unknown context. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first analysis for this problem. We then abstract this non-standard semantics into an approximated one so as to automatically obtain a non-uniform description of the communication topology of mobile systems which compute in hostile contexts. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000.