Abstract:Abstract. The task of a security API is to allow users to process data and key material according to the designer's intentions, and to prevent any malicious sequence of commands from violating these intentions. Security APIs do this by attaching metadata to keys and data -type information -to record acceptable usage policy, which is checked by individual API commands in order to approve or deny a particular manipulation. But what actually is type information? This paper proposes a conceptual framework for unde… Show more
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