Developing Secure Chemical Programs with Aspects

Alvaro Arenas (1) , Jean-Pierre Banâtre (2) , Thierry Priol (2)

1 RAL - STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
2 PARIS - Programming distributed parallel systems for large scale numerical simulation

This paper studies security engineering of distributed systems when following the chemical-programming paradigm, represented here by the High-Order Chemical Language (HOCL). We have analysed how to model secure systems using HOCL. Emphasis is on modularity, hence we advocate for the use of aspect-oriented techniques, where security is seen as a cross-cutting concern impacting the whole system. We show how HOCL can be used to model Virtual Organisations (VOs), exemplified by a VO system for the generation of digital products. We also develop security patterns for HOCL, including patterns for security properties such as authorisation, integrity and secure logs. The patterns are applied to HOCL programs following an aspect-oriented approach, where aspects are modelled as transformation functions that add to a program a cross-cutting concern.

Mots clés: Aspect; Chemical Programming; Virtual Organization

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Alvaro Arenas, Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Thierry Priol. Developing Secure Chemical Programs with Aspects. [Research Report] 2008, pp.12. ⟨inria-00376800⟩