Technical Reports (CIS)
Title
AURA: Preliminary Technical Results
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
April 2008
Abstract
This paper presents AURA, a programming language for access control that treats ordinary programming constructs (e.g., integers and recursive functions) and authorization logic constructs (e.g., principals and access control policies) in a uniform way. AURA is based on polymorphic DCC and uses dependent types to permit assertions that refer directly to AURA values while keeping computation out of the assertion level to ensure tractability. The main technical results of this paper include fully mechanically verified proofs of the decidability and soundness for AURA's type system, and a prototype typechecker and interpreter.
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Date Posted: 23 July 2008
Comments
University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-08-10.