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Backwards-directed information flow analysis for concurrent programs

Winter et al., 2021

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17720440276519600032
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Winter K
Coughlin N
Smith G
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2021 IEEE 34th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)

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A number of approaches have been developed for analysing information flow in concurrent programs in a compositional manner, ie, in terms of one thread at a time. Early approaches modelled the behaviour of a given thread's environment using simple read and write …
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