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NDSS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Analyzing and Comparing the Protection Quality of Security Enhanced Operating Systems
Host compromise is a serious computer security problem today. To better protect hosts, several Mandatory Access Control systems, such as Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and AppA...
Hong Chen, Ninghui Li, Ziqing Mao
NDSS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
The Blind Stone Tablet: Outsourcing Durability to Untrusted Parties
We introduce a new paradigm for outsourcing the durability property of a multi-client transactional database to an untrusted service provider. Specifically, we enable untrusted s...
Peter Williams, Radu Sion, Dennis Shasha
NDSS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
SybilInfer: Detecting Sybil Nodes using Social Networks
SybilInfer is an algorithm for labelling nodes in a social network as honest users or Sybils controlled by an adversary. At the heart of SybilInfer lies a probabilistic model of h...
George Danezis, Prateek Mittal
NDSS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Safe Passage for Passwords and Other Sensitive Data
The prevalence of malware such as keyloggers and screen scrapers has made the prospect of providing sensitive information via web pages disconcerting for security-conscious users....
Jonathan M. McCune, Adrian Perrig, Michael K. Reit...
NDSS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
CSAR: A Practical and Provable Technique to Make Randomized Systems Accountable
We describe CSAR, a novel technique for generating cryptographically strong, accountable randomness. Using CSAR, we can generate a pseudo-random sequence and a proof that the elem...
Michael Backes, Peter Druschel, Andreas Haeberlen,...
NAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Reliable Lightpath Routing in Optical Mesh Networks under Multiple Link Failures
- In this work, we study the problem of maximizing lightpath reliability in optical mesh networks against simultaneous failures of multiple fiber links without using protection sch...
Shengli Yuan
NAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
TinyBee: Mobile-Agent-Based Data Gathering System in Wireless Sensor Networks
—This paper proposes a mobile-agent-based data gathering system (called TinyBee) in wireless sensor networks. Most existing mobile-agent-based systems consider only static sinks/...
Kaoru Ota, Mianxiong Dong, Xiaolin Li
DSN
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Intrusion-tolerant self-healing devices for critical infrastructure protection
Critical infrastructures like the power grid are essentially physical processes controlled by electronic devices. In the last decades, these electronic devices started to be contr...
Paulo Sousa, Alysson Neves Bessani, Wagner Saback ...
DSN
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A QoS-aware fault tolerant middleware for dependable service composition
Based on the framework of service-oriented architecture (SOA), complex distributed systems can be dynamically and automatically composed by integrating distributed Web services pr...
Zibin Zheng, Michael R. Lyu