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PLDI
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
RockSalt: better, faster, stronger SFI for the x86
Software-based fault isolation (SFI), as used in Google’s Native Client (NaCl), relies upon a conceptually simple machine-code analysis to enforce a security policy. But for com...
Greg Morrisett, Gang Tan, Joseph Tassarotti, Jean-...
USS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Adapting Software Fault Isolation to Contemporary CPU Architectures
Software Fault Isolation (SFI) is an effective approach to sandboxing binary code of questionable provenance, an interesting use case for native plugins in a Web browser. We prese...
David Sehr, Robert Muth, Cliff Biffle, Victor Khim...
OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Dealing with Disaster: Surviving Misbehaved Kernel Extensions
Today's extensible operating systems allow applications to modify kernel behavior by providing mechanisms for application code to run in the kernel address space. The advanta...
Margo I. Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small...