Towards Secure Integration of Cryptographic Software
While cryptography is now readily available to everyone and can, provably, protect private information from attackers, we still frequently hear about major data leakages, many of which are due to improper use of cryptographic mechanisms. The problem is that many application developers are not cryptographic experts. Even though high-quality cryptographic APIs are widely available, programmers often select the wrong algorithms or misuse APIs due to a lack of understanding. Such issues arise with both simple operations such as encryption as well as with complex secure communication protocols such as SSL. In this paper, we provide a long-term solution that helps application developers integrate cryptographic components correctly and securely by bridging the gap between cryptographers and application developers. Our solution consists of a software product line (with an underlying feature model) that automatically identifies the correct cryptographic algorithms to use, based on the developer's answers to high-level questions in non-expert terminology. Each feature (i.e., cryptographic algorithm) maps into corresponding Java code and a usage protocol describing API restrictions. By composing the user's selected features, we automatically synthesize a secure code blueprint and a usage protocol that corresponds to the selected usage scenario. Since the developer may change the application code over time, we use the usage protocols to statically analyze the program and ensure that the correct use of the API is not violated over time.
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13:30 22mTalk | Towards Secure Integration of Cryptographic Software Onward! Papers Steven Arzt TU Darmstadt, Sarah Nadi Technische Universität Darmstadt, Karim Ali TU Darmstadt, Sebastian Erdweg TU Darmstadt, Germany, Eric Bodden Fraunhofer SIT and TU Darmstadt, Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
13:52 22mTalk | Runtime Metric Meets Developer - Building Better Cloud Applications Using Feedback Onward! Papers Jürgen Cito University of Zurich, Philipp Leitner University of Zurich, Harald Gall University of Zurich, Aryan Dadashi SAP, Anne Keller SAP, Andreas Roth SAP Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:15 22mTalk | Constraints as a Design Pattern Onward! Papers Hesam Samimi SAP Labs, Alessandro Warth SAP Labs, Mahdi Eslamimehr SAP Labs, Alan Borning University of Washington, USA | ||
14:37 22mTalk | The Moldable Inspector Onward! Papers Andrei Chiş University of Bern, Switzerland, Tudor Gîrba tudorgirba.com, Switzerland, Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland, Aliaksei Syrel University of Bern, Switzerland DOI Pre-print Media Attached |