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ACNS
2008
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
On the Effectiveness of Internal Patching Against File-Sharing Worms
File-sharing worms have been terrorizing Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems in recent years. Existing defenses relying on users’ individual recoveries or limiting users’ file-sharing ...
Liang Xie, Hui Song, Sencun Zhu
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Documenting and automating collateral evolutions in linux device drivers
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
Yoann Padioleau, Julia L. Lawall, René Rydh...
HOTSWUP
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
An Implementation of the Linux Software Repository Model for Other Operating Systems
Year after year, the frequency of updated releases of software continues to increase. Without an automated install process, the result is either that a system installs software wi...
Neil McNab, Anthony Bryan
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Model-carrying code: a practical approach for safe execution of untrusted applications
This paper presents a new approach called model-carrying code (MCC) for safe execution of untrusted code. At the heart of MCC is the idea that untrusted code comes equipped with a...
R. Sekar, V. N. Venkatakrishnan, Samik Basu, Sande...
NSPW
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Dark application communities
In considering new security paradigms, it is often worthwhile to anticipate the direction and nature of future attack paradigms. We identify a class of attacks based on the idea o...
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Ke...