DocumentCode
3234677
Title
Drawing the red line in Java
Author
Back, Godmar ; Hsieh, Wilson
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT, USA
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
116
Lastpage
121
Abstract
Software-based protection has become a viable alternative to hardware-based protection in systems based on languages such as Java, but the absence of hardware mechanisms for protection has been coupled with an absence of a user/kernel boundary. We show why such a “red line” must be present in order for a Java virtual machine to be as effective and as reliable as an operating system. We discuss how the red line can be implemented using software mechanisms, and explain the ones we use in the Java system that we are building
Keywords
Java; security of data; Java; Java virtual machine; operating system; software mechanisms; software-based protection; Application software; Communication system control; Computer science; Databases; Hardware; Java; Kernel; Operating systems; Protection; Software safety;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 1999. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on
Conference_Location
Rio Rico, AZ
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0237-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HOTOS.1999.798387
Filename
798387
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