diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0c617bf..ecea795 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ FSTAR_HOME 	?= $(dir $(shell which fstar.exe))/..
 Z3 		?= $(shell which z3)
 COMPARSE_HOME 	?= $(DY_HOME)/../comparse
 
-INNER_SOURCE_DIRS = core lib lib/comparse lib/event lib/state lib/utils
+INNER_SOURCE_DIRS = core lib lib/comparse lib/event lib/state lib/utils lib/labelled
 SOURCE_DIRS = $(addprefix $(DY_HOME)/src/, $(INNER_SOURCE_DIRS))
 INNER_EXAMPLE_DIRS = nsl_pk
 EXAMPLE_DIRS = $(addprefix $(DY_HOME)/examples/, $(INNER_EXAMPLE_DIRS))
diff --git a/src/lib/DY.Lib.fst b/src/lib/DY.Lib.fst
index 2267825..a6294b5 100644
--- a/src/lib/DY.Lib.fst
+++ b/src/lib/DY.Lib.fst
@@ -24,3 +24,6 @@ include DY.Lib.State.PrivateKeys
 
 /// Provide functions to print the trace
 include DY.Lib.Printing
+
+/// Simplifications for working with labelled data
+include DY.Lib.Labelled
diff --git a/src/lib/labelled/DY.Lib.Labelled.fst b/src/lib/labelled/DY.Lib.Labelled.fst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b643f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/labelled/DY.Lib.Labelled.fst
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+module DY.Lib.Labelled
+
+open Comparse
+open DY.Lib.Comparse.Glue
+open DY.Core
+
+(**
+  The idea of this typeclasss is that we often want to reason about the secrecy of some value (or label)
+  by tracing through a series of can_flow relations. However, often, these are not simple label-label connections,
+  or bytes-label connections (captured by, for instance, is_knowable_by), but some mix --- for instance, we might
+  want to say that the label of an access token can flow to the label of a password, or that the label of some
+  encrypted message can flow to the label of the encryption key.
+
+  It is moderately inconvenient to have to call get_label all over the place when working with labelled bytes, and
+  even more so when dealing with the label of some more complex structure, such as a message (hence the utility of
+  predicates such as is_knowable_by and is_secret).
+
+  By making this generic, we can use the less_secret function (or variants thereof) to work through these chains of
+  reasoning without needing to worry about explicitly getting the labels of the various data we want to connect, thus
+  focusing the proof on the core ideas.
+
+  From some initial testing, this seems to work fine, but I don't find instances in the existing examples where it makes
+  a substantial difference, probably because simple examples leverage is_knowable_by quite well.
+
+  I think this exact implementation may not be final, but that the idea here is worth looking into incorporating (maybe
+  even into the core, at least for the label and bytes instances).
+*)
+class labelled (a:Type) =
+{
+  extract_label : a -> GTot label
+}
+
+let less_secret (#a #b:Type) {| labelled a |} {| labelled b |} (tr:trace) (x:a) (y:b) =
+  can_flow tr (extract_label x) (extract_label y)
+
+let more_secret (#a #b:Type) {| labelled a |} {| labelled b |} (tr:trace) (x:a) (y:b) =
+  can_flow tr (extract_label y) (extract_label x)
+
+let equally_secret (#a #b:Type) {| labelled a |} {| labelled b |} (x:a) (y:b) =
+  always_equivalent (extract_label x) (extract_label y)
+
+let secrecy_reflexive (#a:Type) {| labelled a |} (x:a)
+  : Lemma (equally_secret x x)
+  = ()
+
+let secrecy_transitive (#a #b #c:Type) {| labelled a |} {| labelled b |} {| labelled c |} (tr:trace) (x:a) (y:b) (z:c)
+  : Lemma (requires less_secret tr x y /\ less_secret tr y z)
+          (ensures less_secret tr x z)
+  = ()
+
+instance label_labelled : labelled label =
+{
+  extract_label = fun x -> x
+}
+
+instance bytes_labelled {| crypto_usages |} : labelled bytes =
+{
+  extract_label = get_label
+}
+
+instance ps_labelled (a:Type) {| parseable_serializeable bytes a |} {| crypto_usages |}: labelled a =
+{
+  extract_label = fun x -> get_label (serialize #bytes a x)
+}