Assessing security threats of looping constructs

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 225-235

  Malacaria, Pasquale ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information theory; Language semantics; Security

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS;

COVERT CHANNELS; INFORMATION-THEORETIC MODELS; LOOPING CONSTRUCTS; SECURITY THREATS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 33846535380     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1190215.1190251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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