Title
Safer scripting through precompilation
Abstract
One of the challenges in modern systems is the conflict between the desire to run software from a wide variety of untrusted sources and the need to prevent malicious activity by those scripts. The current standard practice is to attempt to achieve this through permissions, but this has been shown repeatedly to fail in a variety of ways. If permissions are made too granular, they become impossible to configure and so tend to become useless. If they are less granular, loopholes appear through which malicious scripts can wriggle. In either case, providing useful defaults whilst still providing security has proved to be a daunting (or, perhaps, judging on the evidence, impossible) task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/978-3-540-77156-2_35
Security Protocols Workshop
Keywords
Field
DocType
Safer scripting
Parse tree,Computer science,Computer security,SAFER,System call,Access control,Scripting language,Global variable
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4631
0302-9743
3-540-77155-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ben Laurie129714.00
Frank Stajano211.05
George Danezis33130226.61
Bruce Christianson4158.58
Richard Clayton5507.98