Security policies for downgrading

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 198-209

  Chong, Stephen ^a   Myers, Andrew C ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Declassification; Downgrading; Information flow; Noninterference; Security policies

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA TRANSFER; INFORMATION SERVICES; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

DECLASSIFICATION; DOWNGRADING; INFORMATION FLOW; NONINTERFERENCE; SECURITY POLICIES;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 14844300105     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1030083.1030110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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