A general language-based framework for specifying and verifying notions of opacity

@article{Wintenberg2022AGL,
  title={A general language-based framework for specifying and verifying notions of opacity},
  author={Andrew Wintenberg and Matthew Blischke and St{\'e}phane Lafortune and Necmiye Ozay},
  journal={Discrete Event Dynamic Systems},
  year={2022},
  pages={1-37}
}
Opacity is an information flow property that captures the notion of plausible deniability in dynamic systems, that is whether an intruder can deduce that “secret” behavior has occurred. In this paper we provide a general framework of opacity to unify the many existing notions of opacity that exist for discrete event systems. We use this framework to discuss language-based and state-based notions of opacity over automata. We present several methods for language-based opacity verification, and a… 
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