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TPHOL
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On the Correctness of Operating System Kernels
The Verisoft project aims at the pervasive formal verification of entire computer systems. In particular, the seamless verification of the academic system is attempted. This syst...
Mauro Gargano, Mark A. Hillebrand, Dirk Leinenbach...
USS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Copilot - a Coprocessor-based Kernel Runtime Integrity Monitor
Copilot is a coprocessor-based kernel integrity monitor for commodity systems. Copilot is designed to detect malicious modifications to a host's kernel and has correctly dete...
Nick L. Petroni Jr., Timothy Fraser, Jesus Molina,...
USENIX
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Transparent Checkpoint-Restart of Multiple Processes on Commodity Operating Systems
The ability to checkpoint a running application and restart it later can provide many useful benefits including fault recovery, advanced resources sharing, dynamic load balancing...
Oren Laadan, Jason Nieh
DIMVA
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Operating System Interface Obfuscation and the Revealing of Hidden Operations
Many software security solutions—including malware analyzers, information flow tracking systems, auditing utilities, and host-based intrusion detectors—rely on knowledge of s...
Abhinav Srivastava, Andrea Lanzi, Jonathon T. Giff...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
MetaTM//TxLinux: transactional memory for an operating system
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking prim...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...