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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 25 No. 6, pp. 1921-1937


Preventing Information Leakage in Mobile Applications with Object-Oriented Access Control Lists and Security Monitor Encapsulation


SHIOW-YANG WU AND SHIH-CHIEN CHOU
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 
National Dong Hwa University 
Hualien, 974 Taiwan


    We propose a model and associated algorithms for information flow control to prevent information leakage in mobile computing environments. The model employs access control lists and encapsulated security monitors under a fully object-oriented framework. We show that our model prevents unauthorized direct access to sensitive information from a mobile user to the server, as well as any attempt on indirect access through intermediate entities. To understand the feasibility of our model, we suggest an event-driven approach and efficient implementation for the realization of the model. A Java-based preliminary implementation and performance evaluation results demonstrate that our model can successfully prevent information leakage with very low overhead.


Keywords: mobile data access, information flow control, access control lists, encapsulated security monitor, information leakage

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