Lecture 2 Outline

Reading: text, §2, 3.1–3.2
Assignments: Homework 1, due on Apr. 11, 2018 at 11:59pm


  1. Greetings and felicitations!
  2. Access Control Matrix
    1. Subjects, objects, and rights
    2. Primitive commands
    3. Commands and conditions: create•file, various flavors of grant•right to show conditions and nested commands
  3. Decidability of security
    1. Notion of leakage in terms of ACM
    2. Determining security of a generic system with generic rights and mono-operational commands is decidable
    3. Determining security of a generic system with generic rights is undecidable (HRU result)
    4. Meaning: can’t derive a generic algorithm; must look at (sets of) individual case


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ECS 153, Computer Security
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