Who: Alejandro Russo
When: 11:00 am on April 15
Where: Room 3364\
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Abstract:\
For several decades, researchers from different communities have independently focused on protecting confidentiality of data. Two distinct technologies have emerged for such purposes: Mandatory Access Control (MAC) and Information-Flow Control (IFC)—the former belonging to operating systems (OS) research, while the latter to the programming languages community. These approaches restrict how data gets propagated within a system in order to avoid information leaks. In this scenario, the functional programming language Haskell plays a unique privileged role: it is able to protect confidentiality via libraries. This talk presents an (monadic) API which statically protects confidentiality even in the presence of advanced features like exceptions, concurrency, and mutable data structures.
This talk is based on the paper “Functional Pearl: Two Can Keep a Secret, If One of Them Uses Haskell” presented in ICFP 2015.
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