NDLI: Supporting the Secure Deployment of OSGi Bundles

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Parrend, Pierre Frenot, Stephane
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: INRIA Ares/CITI, INSA-Lyon, F-69621 France, Phone: +33 (0) 04 72 43 71 29, E-mail: stephane.frenot@insa-lyon.fr (Frenot, Stephane) \|\| INRIA Ares/CITI, INSA-Lyon, F-69621 France, Phone: +33 (0) 04 72 43 71 29, E-mail: pierre.parrend@insa-lyon.fr (Parrend, Pierre)
Abstract	The OSGi platform is a lightweight management layer over a Java virtual machine that makes runtime extensibility and multi-application support possible in mobile and constraint environments. This powerfull capability opens a particular attack vector against mobile platforms: the installation of malicious OSGi bundles. The first countermeasure is the digital signature of the bundles. We developed a tool suite that supports the signature, the publication and the validation of the bundles in an OSGi framework. Our tools support the publication of bundles onto a remote bundle repository as well as the validation of the signature according to the OSGi R4 specifications. A comparison of existing validation mechanisms shows that our security layer is the only one that is compliant with the specification.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	3997224
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424409921
DOI	10.1109/WOWMOM.2007.4351681
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-06-18
Publisher Place	Finland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Java Runtime environment Software packages Virtual machining Software standards Internet Security Code standards Environmental management Digital signatures
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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