Verification of Security-Relevant Behavior Model and Security Policy for Model-Carrying Code

Yonglong Wei, Xiaojuan Zheng, Jinglei Ren, Xudong Zheng, Chen Sun, Zhenhao Li

Abstract: This article presents a method of verifying the safety of untrusted mobile code, using the model of security-relevant behaviors of code. This method verifies whether models violate users’ security policies to help users decide which programs to run and which not, and hence ensures the security of users’ systems and devices. Based on the framework of model-carrying code, we make several improvements: using the extended pushdown automaton (EPDA) as the program behavior model, reducing ambiguity in regular expressions over events (REE), proposing a new verification algorithm according to above significant improvements.