Name
Abstract | ||
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Timing channels are a significant and growing security threat in computer systems, with no established solution. We have recently argued that the OS must provide time protection, in analogy to the established memory protection, to protect applications from information leakage through timing channels. Based on a recently-proposed implementation of time protection in the seL4 microkernel, we investigate how such an implementation could be formally proved to prevent timing channels. We postulate that this should be possible by reasoning about a highly abstracted representation of the shared hardware resources that cause timing channels. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1145/3317550.3321431 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP ON HOT TOPICS IN OPERATING SYSTEMS (HOTOS '19) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
timing channels, theorem proving, seL4 | Memory protection,Information leakage,Computer science,Automated theorem proving,Microkernel,Communication channel,Analogy,Distributed computing | Journal |
Volume | Citations | PageRank |
abs/1901.08338 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
11 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gernot Heiser | 1 | 2525 | 137.42 |
| Gerwin Klein | 2 | 1450 | 87.47 |
| Toby Murray | 3 | 242 | 17.03 |