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ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Overshadow: a virtualization-based approach to retrofitting protection in commodity operating systems
Commodity operating systems entrusted with securing sensitive data are remarkably large and complex, and consequently, frequently prone to compromise. To address this limitation, ...
Xiaoxin Chen, Tal Garfinkel, E. Christopher Lewis,...
USS
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Towards Application Security on Untrusted Operating Systems
Complexity in commodity operating systems makes compromises inevitable. Consequently, a great deal of work has examined how to protect security-critical portions of applications f...
Dan R. K. Ports, Tal Garfinkel
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations
We report the performance of NOW-Sort, a collection of sorting implementations on a Network of Workstations (NOW). We find that parallel sorting on a NOW is competitive to sortin...
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau,...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On the Appropriateness of Commodity Operating Systems for Large-Scale, Balanced Computing Systems
In the past five years, we have been involved in the design and development of Cplanttm . An important goal was to take advantages of commodity approaches wherever possible. In p...
Ron Brightwell, Arthur B. Maccabe, Rolf Riesen
COLCOM
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
The Nizza secure-system architecture
The trusted computing bases (TCBs) of applications running on today’s commodity operating systems have become extremely large. This paper presents an architecture that allows to...
Hermann Härtig, Michael Hohmuth, Norman Feske...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Xen and the art of virtualization
Numerous systems have been designed which use virtualization to subdivide the ample resources of a modern computer. Some require specialized hardware, or cannot support commodity ...
Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven H...
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Splitting Interfaces: Making Trust Between Applications and Operating Systems Configurable
In current commodity systems, applications have no way of limiting their trust in the underlying operating system (OS), leaving them at the complete mercy of an attacker who gains...
Richard Ta-Min, Lionel Litty, David Lie