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A microkernel virtual machine:: building security with clear interfaces

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Lu, Xiaoqi Smith, Scott F.
Abstract	In this paper we propose a novel microkernel-based virtual machine (µKVM), a new code-based security framework with a simple and declarative security architecture. The main design goals of the µKVM are to put a clear, inviolable programming interface between different codebases or security components, and to limit the size of the trusted codebase in the spirit of a microkernel. Security policies are enforced solely on the interface because all data must explicitly pass through the inviolable interface. The architecture of the µKVM effectively removes the need for expensive runtime stack inspection, and applies the principle of least privilege to both library and application code elegantly and efficiently. We have implemented a prototype of the proposed µKVM. A series of benchmarks show that the prototype preserves the original functionality of Java and compares favorably with the J2SDK performance-wise.
Starting Page	47
Ending Page	56
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1595933743
DOI	10.1145/1134744.1134754
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2006-06-10
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Access control Java Virtual machine Frameworks Kernel Interface Language-based security
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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