Scalable dynamic information flow tracking and its applications

Abstract

We are designing scalable dynamic information flow tracking techniques and employing them to carry out tasks related to debugging (bug location and fault avoidance), security (software attack detection), and data validation (lineage tracing of scientific data). The focus of our ongoing work is on developing online dynamic analysis techniques for long running multithreaded programs that may be executed on a single core or on multiple cores to exploit thread level parallelism.