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Denning: A Lattice Model of Secure Information Flow

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Security and cryptography · FORMALIZATION

Reference score180,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Made security classes and permitted flows into a lattice framework for reasoning about program mechanisms.

Scientific scope

The record is Denning's sole-author 1976 Communications of the ACM paper. It does not absorb all mandatory-access-control systems, later noninterference formulations, declassification policies or every implementation.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Denning's sole-author 1976 Communications of the ACM paper. It does not absorb all mandatory-access-control systems, later noninterference formulations, declassification policies or every implementation.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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