• DocumentCode
    27015
  • Title

    Dancing with Giants: Wimpy Kernels for On-Demand I/O Isolation

  • Author

    Zongwei Zhou ; Miao Yu ; Gligor, Virgil D.

  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    Mar.-Apr. 2015
  • Firstpage
    38
  • Lastpage
    46
  • Abstract
    To be trustworthy, security-sensitive applications must be small and simple--or wimpy. Because of their limited size and functions, they must securely compose with large, untrusted commodity systems--or giants--to survive. A security architecture based on a wimpy kernel can provide on-demand isolated I/O channels for wimp applications without bloating the underlying trusted computing base.
  • Keywords
    security of data; trusted computing; on-demand isolated I/O channels; security architecture; security-sensitive applications; trusted computing; untrusted commodity systems; wimpy kernels; Computer architecture; Computer security; Hardware; Kernel; Process control; Trust management; Universal Serial Bus; TCB reduction; export and mediate; on-demand I/O isolation; outsource and verify; trusted computing base; wimpy kernels;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2015.26
  • Filename
    7085958