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OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Safe Kernel Extensions Without Run-Time Checking
This paper describes a mechanism by which an operating system kernel can determine with certainty that it is safe to execute a binary supplied by an untrusted source. The kernel r...
George C. Necula, Peter Lee
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Fast byte-granularity software fault isolation
Bugs in kernel extensions remain one of the main causes of poor operating system reliability despite proposed techniques that isolate extensions in separate protection domains to ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Jean-Philippe Martin,...
NDSS
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
One-Way Isolation: An Effective Approach for Realizing Safe Execution Environments
In this paper, we present an approach for realizing a safe execution environment (SEE) that enables users to “try out” new software (or configuration changes to existing soft...
Weiqing Sun, Zhenkai Liang, V. N. Venkatakrishnan,...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Application-level isolation and recovery with solitude
When computer systems are compromised by an attack, it is difficult to determine the precise extent of the damage caused by the attack because the state changes made by an attack...
Shvetank Jain, Fareha Shafique, Vladan Djeric, Ash...
OOPSLA
2009
Springer
14 years 9 days ago
Thorn: robust, concurrent, extensible scripting on the JVM
Scripting languages enjoy great popularity due their support for rapid and exploratory development. They typically have lightweight syntax, weak data privacy, dynamic typing, powe...
Bard Bloom, John Field, Nathaniel Nystrom, Johan &...