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SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Separating agreement from execution for byzantine fault tolerant services
We describe a new architecture for Byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication that separates agreement that orders requests from execution that processes requests. This se...
Jian Yin, Jean-Philippe Martin, Arun Venkataramani...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Model-carrying code: a practical approach for safe execution of untrusted applications
This paper presents a new approach called model-carrying code (MCC) for safe execution of untrusted code. At the heart of MCC is the idea that untrusted code comes equipped with a...
R. Sekar, V. N. Venkatakrishnan, Samik Basu, Sande...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Implementing an untrusted operating system on trusted hardware
Recently, there has been considerable interest in providing “trusted computing platforms” using hardware — TCPA and Palladium being the most publicly visible examples. In th...
David Lie, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Mark Horowitz
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Upgrading transport protocols using untrusted mobile code
In this paper, we present STP, a system in which communicating end hosts use untrusted mobile code to remotely upgrade each other with the transport protocols that they use to com...
Parveen Patel, Andrew Whitaker, David Wetherall, J...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Bullet: high bandwidth data dissemination using an overlay mesh
In recent years, overlay networks have become an effective alternative to IP multicast for efficient point to multipoint communication across the Internet. Typically, nodes self-...
Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeannie R. Albrech...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Backtracking intrusions
Samuel T. King, Peter M. Chen
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Decentralized user authentication in a global file system
The challenge for user authentication in a global file system is allowing people to grant access to specific users and groups in remote administrative domains, without assuming ...
Michael Kaminsky, George Savvides, David Mazi&egra...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Preserving peer replicas by rate-limited sampled voting
The LOCKSS project has developed and deployed in a worldwide test a peer-to-peer system for preserving access to journals and other archival information published on the Web. It c...
Petros Maniatis, David S. H. Rosenthal, Mema Rouss...