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Full-Text Articles in Programming Languages and Compilers

Policy-Agnostic Programming On The Client-Side, Kushal Palesha May 2017

Policy-Agnostic Programming On The Client-Side, Kushal Palesha

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Browser security has become a major concern especially due to web pages becoming more complex. These web applications handle a lot of information, including sensitive data that may be vulnerable to attacks like data exfiltration, cross-site scripting (XSS), etc. Most modern browsers have security mechanisms in place to prevent such attacks but they still fall short in preventing more advanced attacks like evolved variants of data exfiltration. Moreover, there is no standard that is followed to implement security into the browser.

A lot of research has been done in the field of information flow security that could prove to be …