Recent Study on Programming Language for Information Security
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 2573
Special Issue Editor
Interests: information security; programming language design and implementation
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Dear Colleagues,
Today, security is one of the major issues in computer science and systems science. A number of schemes have been proposed to analyze, support and enhance systems security. Among those, security support via programming languages is considered an essential approach. In fact, because programs are written in a specific programming language, information-security-related features, such as information flow and access control, are determined by those of the programming language in use. This has a fundamental significance as regards the analysis of programming languages in terms of information security.
The efforts made so far include the specification of secure coding rules, language constructs for security (e.g., SecureString) and secure library support. A number of programs have been rewritten by using modern programming languages that support security and modern secure coding rules. Theories and tools of security analysis and verification, such as information flow theory, formal system and type system, have also been provided and have proven to be very effective in finding and fixing security vulnerabilities of a target program. However, we still face a number of challenges in security support via programming language.
In this Special Issue, authors are cordially invited to submit papers concerning the theory and practice of programming languages for information security. In addition, case studies of programming languages for security are also welcome.
Dr. Hiroyuki Sato
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Secure language construct
- Secure coding rules
- Secure library
- Virtual machine security
- Program verification theory and tool
- Security analysis theory and tool
- Formal systems
- Type system
