Timed automata as a formalism for expressing security: A survey on theory and practice

J Arcile, É André - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Timed automata are a common formalism for the verification of concurrent systems subject to
timing constraints. They extend finite-state automata with clocks, that constrain the system …

Guaranteeing timed opacity using parametric timed model checking

É André, D Lime, D Marinho, J Sun - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Information leakage can have dramatic consequences on systems security. Among harmful
information leaks, the timing information leakage occurs whenever an attacker successfully …

The dark side of timed opacity

F Cassez - International conference on information security and …, 2009 - Springer
In this paper we extend the notion of opacity, defined for discrete-event systems, to dense-
time systems. We define the timed opacity problem for timed automata and study its …

The opacity of real-time automata

L Wang, N Zhan, J An - … Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Opacity is an important property on information flow to guarantee that a system under attack
keeps its “secrets”, possibly subsets of traces (language-based opacity) or subsets of states …

Configuring timing parameters to ensure execution-time opacity in timed automata

É André, E Lefaucheux, D Lime, D Marinho… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Timing information leakage occurs whenever an attacker successfully deduces confidential
internal information by observing some timed information such as events with timestamps …

Expiring opacity problems in parametric timed automata

É André, E Lefaucheux… - 2023 27th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Information leakage can have dramatic consequences on the security of real-time systems.
Timing leaks occur when an attacker is able to infer private behavior depending on timing …

The bright side of timed opacity

É André, S Dépernet, E Lefaucheux - International Conference on Formal …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract In 2009, Franck Cassez showed that the timed opacity problem, where an attacker
can observe some actions with their timestamps and attempts to deduce information, is …

strategFTO: Untimed control for timed opacity

É André, S Bolat, E Lefaucheux… - Proceedings Of The 8th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a prototype tool strategFTO addressing the verification of a security property in
critical software. We consider a recent definition of timed opacity where an attacker aims to …

Control and synthesis of non-interferent timed systems

G Benattar, F Cassez, D Lime… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We focus on the control and the synthesis of secure timed systems which are modelled as
timed automata. The security property that the system must satisfy is a non-interference …

Opacity-enforcing supervisory strategies for secure discrete event systems

A Saboori, CN Hadjicostis - 2008 47th IEEE conference on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Initial-state opacity emerges as a key property in numerous security applications of discrete
event systems including key-stream generators for cryptographic protocols. Specifically, a …