Andre Byrd

Availability-Preserving Containment: Measuring the Cost of Correct Isolation

Containment mechanisms that correctly propagate taint across a dependency graph can disable far more legitimate state than an attacker directly compromised. This paper measures whether operational availability can be restored without weakening containment. Using the frozen CSR-BE...

When Containment Becomes the Attack: Denial-of-Service Against Transitive Taint Propagation in Shared Agent State

Shared-state autonomous-agent systems increasingly coordinate through persistent memory, blackboards, retrieval stores, summaries, and other common state. Transitive Taint Propagation (TTP) addresses a central trust problem in such systems: once a record is identified as poisoned...

When Containment Becomes the Attack: Denial-of-Service Against Transitive Taint Propagation in Shared Agent State

Shared-state autonomous-agent systems increasingly coordinate through persistent memory, blackboards, retrieval stores, summaries, and other common state. Transitive Taint Propagation (TTP) addresses a central trust problem in such systems: once a record is identified as poisoned...