Information Flow (information Theory)
Information flow in an information theoretical context is the transfer of information from a variable to a variable in a given process. Not all flows may be desirable. For example, a system shouldn't leak any secret (partially or not) to public observers.
Read more about Information Flow (information Theory): Introduction, Preliminaries, Explicit Flows and Side Channels, Non-Interference, Information Flow Control, Declassification
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