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CCS
2006
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Application security support in the operating system kernel
Application security is typically coded in the application. In kernelSec, we are investigating mechanisms to implement application security in an operating system kernel. The mech...
Manigandan Radhakrishnan, Jon A. Solworth
HPCA
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Architectural framework for supporting operating system survivability
The ever increasing size and complexity of Operating System (OS) kernel code bring an inevitable increase in the number of security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attack...
Xiaowei Jiang, Yan Solihin
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Reducing TCB size by using untrusted components: small kernels versus virtual-machine monitors
Secure systems are best built on top of a small trusted operating system: The smaller the operating system, the easier it can be assured or verified for correctness. In this pape...
Michael Hohmuth, Michael Peter, Hermann Härti...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
A Caching Model of Operating System Kernel Functionality
Operating system research has endeavored to develop micro-kernels that provide modularity, reliability and security improvements over conventional monolithic kernels. However, the...
David R. Cheriton, Kenneth J. Duda
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Hardware Enforcement of Application Security Policies Using Tagged Memory
Computers are notoriously insecure, in part because application security policies do not map well onto traditional protection mechanisms such as Unix user accounts or hardware pag...
Nickolai Zeldovich, Hari Kannan, Michael Dalton, C...