Project TRANSPROSE: reconciling mobile-code security with executionefficiency
Amme, W.; Dalton, N.; Frohlich, P.H.; Haldar, V.; Housel, P.S.; von Ronne, J.; Stork, C.H.; Zhenochin, S.; Franz, M.
DARPA Information Survivability Conference & Exposition II, 2001. DISCEX apos;01. Proceedings
Volume 2, Issue , 2001 Page(s):196 - 210 vol.2
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/DISCEX.2001.932172
Summary:Project TRANSPROSE is a comprehensive research project
investigating techniques for transporting programs securely over
potentially insecure channels. The central focus of this project is the
development of a blueprint for a next-generation mobile code
distribution format. A problem of previous approaches to mobile code
security has been that the additional provisions for security lead to a
loss of efficiency, often to the extent of making an otherwise virtuous
security scheme unusable for all but trivial programs. TRANSPROSE
strives to deviate from the common approach of studying security in
isolation and instead focuses simultaneously on multiple aspects of
mobile code quality. Besides security, such aspects include encoding
density, speed of dynamic code generation and the eventual execution
performance. This paper gives a high-level overview of Project
TRANSPROSE and presents initial results, which include a highly
effective syntax-based compression scheme for Java programs, as well as
a performance-oriented intermediate program representation providing
guaranteed security
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