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MICRO
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
SHARK: Architectural support for autonomic protection against stealth by rootkit exploits
Rootkits have become a growing concern in cyber-security. Typically, they exploit kernel vulnerabilities to gain root privileges of a system and conceal malware’s activities fro...
Vikas R. Vasisht, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee
FSE
2003
Springer
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14 years 18 days ago
Rabbit: A New High-Performance Stream Cipher
Abstract. We present a new stream cipher, Rabbit, based on iterating a set of coupled nonlinear functions. Rabbit is characterized by a high performance in software with a measured...
Martin Boesgaard, Mette Vesterager, Thomas Pederse...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Automatically patching errors in deployed software
We present ClearView, a system for automatically patching errors in deployed software. ClearView works on stripped Windows x86 binaries without any need for source code, debugging...
Jeff H. Perkins, Sunghun Kim, Samuel Larsen, Saman...
PLDI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
DieHard: probabilistic memory safety for unsafe languages
Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors ...
Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
OOPSLA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Living in the comfort zone
A comfort zone is a tested region of a system’s input space within which it has been observed to behave acceptably. To keep systems operating within their comfort zones, we advo...
Martin C. Rinard