Xavier Leroy and François Rouaix. Security properties of typed applets. In J. Vitek and C. Jensen, editors, Secure Internet Programming -- Security issues for Mobile and Distributed Objects, number 1603 in LNCS, pages 147--182. Springer, 1999.

This paper formalizes the folklore result that strongly-typed applets are more secure than untyped ones. We formulate and prove several security properties that all well-typed applets possess, and identify sufficient conditions for the applet execution environment to be safe, such as procedural encapsulation, type abstraction, and systematic type-based placement of run-time checks. These results are a first step towards formal techniques for developing and validating safe execution environments for applets.

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