Combining behavioural types with security analysis
This work is incremental, as it synthesizes existing research on behavioral types for security analysis in distributed systems, targeting researchers and practitioners in software engineering and security.
The paper addresses the challenge of ensuring security in distributed software systems by providing a unified overview of behavioral types for analyzing security properties, without presenting new experimental results or concrete numbers.
Today's software systems are highly distributed and interconnected, and they increasingly rely on communication to achieve their goals; due to their societal importance, security and trustworthiness are crucial aspects for the correctness of these systems. Behavioural types, which extend data types by describing also the structured behaviour of programs, are a widely studied approach to the enforcement of correctness properties in communicating systems. This paper offers a unified overview of proposals based on behavioural types which are aimed at the analysis of security properties.