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USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
A TCP-layer Name Service for TCP Ports
Sérgio Freire, André Zúquete
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
ConfiDNS: Leveraging Scale and History to Detect Compromise
While cooperative DNS resolver systems, such as CoDNS, have demonstrated improved reliability and performance over standard approaches, their security has been weaker, since any c...
Lindsey Poole, Vivek S. Pai
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Perspectives:  Improving SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-Path Probing
The popularity of "Trust-on-first-use" (Tofu) authentication, used by SSH and HTTPS with self-signed certificates, demonstrates significant demand for host authenticatio...
Dan Wendlandt, David G. Andersen, Adrian Perrig
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86
Code sandboxing is useful for many purposes, but most sandboxing techniques require kernel modifications, do not completely isolate guest code, or incur substantial performance co...
Bryan Ford, Russ Cox
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Idle Read After Write - IRAW
Despite a low occurrence rate, silent data corruption represents a growing concern for storage systems designers. Throughout the storage hierarchy, from the file system down to th...
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Handling Flash Crowds from Your Garage
The garage innovator creates new web applications which may rocket to popular success
Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Diverse Replication for Single-Machine Byzantine-Fault Tolerance
New single-machine environments are emerging from abundant computation available through multiple cores and secure virtualization. In this paper, we describe the research challeng...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Power-aware Remote Replication for Enterprise-level Disaster Recovery Systems
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...
Kazuo Goda, Masaru Kitsuregawa
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Fast, Inexpensive Content-Addressed Storage in Foundation
Foundation is a preservation system for users' personal, digital artifacts. Foundation preserves all of a user's data and its dependencies--fonts, programs, plugins, ker...
Sean C. Rhea, Russ Cox, Alex Pesterev
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Free Factories: Unified Infrastructure for Data Intensive Web Services
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...