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CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A control point for reducing root abuse of file-system privileges
We address the problem of restricting root’s ability to change arbitrary files on disk, in order to prevent abuse on most current desktop operating systems. The approach first...
Glenn Wurster, Paul C. van Oorschot
WOA
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Using Mobile Agents for Secure Biometric Authentication
This paper deals with the definition of a strong authentication model, coupling usual password/PIN based methods with a biometric matching, over a Multi Agent distributed infrastru...
Marco Tranquillin, Carlo Ferrari, Michele Moro
IAJIT
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Specification and Prototyping of Reactive Distributed Systems with Algebraic Term Nets
: The specification of the dynamic behaviour of reactive distributed systems must exhibit the structures of control and has to imply explicitly the relevant aspects of the distribu...
Faiza Bouchoul, Mohamed Mostefai
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Embracing policy engineering
Declarative policies play a central role in many modern software systems. Engineering policies and their interactions with programs raises many interesting open questions. Categor...
Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Daniel J. Dou...
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Improved Port Knocking with Strong Authentication
It is sometimes desirable to allow access to open ports on a firewall only to authorized external users and present closed ports to all others. We examine ways to construct an au...
Rennie deGraaf, John Aycock, Michael J. Jacobson J...