Mediating connectors: a non-bypassable process wrapping technology

We have developed a technology for mediating all shared library calls. These mediators can be used to instrument these interfaces, monitor their behavior, integrate legacy components together, or encapsulate potentially harmful or unreliable components. They can be dynamically installed and removed during execution or installed before execution begins. Since modern commercial operating systems promote packaging third party functionality as shared libraries and are themselves composed of shared libraries the ability to mediate these interfaces provides access to the broad range of services available on that platform. We have hardened this mediation technology to prevent its bypass or removal by malicious code and applied it to increase the security and integrity of processes. An implementation of this technology is available for Windows NT