In this paper, we present STP, a system in which communicating end hosts use untrusted mobile code to remotely upgrade each other with the transport protocols that they use to com...
Parveen Patel, Andrew Whitaker, David Wetherall, J...
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...
Device drivers on commodity operating systems execute with kernel privilege and have unfettered access to kernel data structures. Several recent attacks demonstrate that such poor...
Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael M. Swift, C...
We show how to determine statically whether it is safe for untrusted machine code to be loaded into a trusted host system. Our safety-checking technique operates directly on the u...
Idle port scanning uses side-channel attacks to bounce scans off of a "zombie" host to stealthily scan a victim IP address and determine if a port is open or closed, or ...
Roya Ensafi, Jong Chun Park, Deepak Kapur, Jedidia...