Nested paging is a hardware solution for alleviating the software memory management overhead imposed by system virtualization. Nested paging complements existing page walk hardwar...
Ravi Bhargava, Ben Serebrin, Francesco Spadini, Sr...
Recently, the number of cores on general-purpose processors has been increasing rapidly. Using conventional programming models, it is challenging to effectively exploit these core...
Jayanth Gummaraju, Joel Coburn, Yoshio Turner, Men...
The constant race for faster and more powerful CPUs is drawing to a close. No longer is it feasible to significantly increase the speed of the CPU without paying a crushing penalt...
Yaron Weinsberg, Danny Dolev, Tal Anker, Muli Ben-...
System-call monitoring has become the basis for many hostbased intrusion detection as well as policy enforcement techniques. Mimicry attacks attempt to evade system-call monitorin...
Proving that particular methods within a code base are functionally pure--deterministic and side-effect free--would aid verification of security properties including function inve...
Matthew Finifter, Adrian Mettler, Naveen Sastry, D...