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USS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
On User Choice in Graphical Password Schemes
Graphical password schemes have been proposed as an alternative to text passwords in applications that support graphics and mouse or stylus entry. In this paper we detail what is,...
Darren Davis, Fabian Monrose, Michael K. Reiter
USS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Privtrans: Automatically Partitioning Programs for Privilege Separation
Privilege separation partitions a single program into two parts: a privileged program called the monitor and an unprivileged program called the slave. All trust and privileges are...
David Brumley, Dawn Xiaodong Song
USS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
TIED, LibsafePlus: Tools for Runtime Buffer Overflow Protection
Buffer overflow exploits make use of the treatment of strings in C as character arrays rather than as first-class objects. Manipulation of arrays as pointers and primitive pointer...
Kumar Avijit, Prateek Gupta, Deepak Gupta
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Reliability and Security in the CoDeeN Content Distribution Network
With the advent of large-scale, wide-area networking testbeds, researchers can deploy long-running distributed services that interact with other resources on the Web. The CoDeeN C...
Limin Wang, KyoungSoo Park, Ruoming Pang, Vivek S....
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Email Prioritization: Reducing Delays on Legitimate Mail Caused by Junk Mail
Dan Twining, Matthew M. Williamson, Miranda Mowbra...
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Time-based Fairness Improves Performance in Multi-Rate WLANs
The performance seen by individual clients on a wireless local area network (WLAN) is heavily influenced by the manner in which wireless channel capacity is allocated. The popular...
Godfrey Tan, John V. Guttag
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
How Xlib Is Implemented (and What We're Doing About It)
The X Window System is the de facto standard graphical environment for Linux and Unix hosts, and is usable on nearly any class of computer one could find today. Its success is par...
Jamey Sharp
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Making the "Box" Transparent: System Call Performance as a First-Class Result
For operating system intensive applications, the ability of designers to understand system call performance behavior is essential to achieving high performance. Conventional perfo...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai