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USENIX
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Kernel Support for Faster Web Proxies
This paper proposes two mechanisms for reducing the communication-related overheads of Web applications. One mechanism is user-level connection tracking, which allows an applicati...
Marcel-Catalin Rosu, Daniela Rosu
NOSSDAV
2001
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Lightweight kernel/user communication for real-time and multimedia applications
Operating system enhancements to support real-time and multimedia applications often include specializations and extensions of kernel functionality, as with the kernel HTTP daemon...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Richard Wes...
SOSP
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Pioneer: verifying code integrity and enforcing untampered code execution on legacy systems
We propose a primitive, called Pioneer, as a first step towards verifiable code execution on untrusted legacy hosts. Pioneer does not require any hardware support such as secure...
Arvind Seshadri, Mark Luk, Elaine Shi, Adrian Perr...
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Trusted Path Execution for the Linux 2.6 Kernel as a Linux Security Module
The prevention of damage caused to a system via malicious executables is a significant issue in the current state of security on Linux operating systems. Several approaches are av...
Niki A. Rahimi
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Cosy: Develop in User-Land, Run in Kernel-Mode
User applications that move a lot of data across the user-kernel boundary suffer from a serious performance penalty. We provide a framework, Compound System Calls (CoSy), to enhan...
Amit Purohit, Charles P. Wright, Joseph Spadavecch...