SRL Publications

Technical Reports

SRL2003-06 Hao Chen and Jonathan S. Shapiro, Exploring Static Checking for Software Assurance

A description of our experiment using MOPS to evaluate temporal safety properties in the EROS kernel, submitted to Oakland 2004.

SRL2003-05 Jonathan S. Shapiro, John Vanderburgh, Eric Northup, and David Chizmadia, The EROS Trusted Window System

A description of our trusted window system prototype, submitted to Oakland 2004.

SRL2003-04 Jonathan S. Shapiro, The Practical Application of a Decidable Access Model

A reworked version of the 2000 technical report, submitted to Oakland 2004.

SRL2003-03 Mark Miller, Jonathan S. Shapiro, Paradigm Regained: Abstraction Mechanisms for Access Control

The submitted version of Mark's invited paper for ASIAN-03.

SRL2003-02 Mark Miller, Ka-Ping Yee, Jonathan S. Shapiro, Capability Myths Demolished

A submission to USENIX 2003 providing a taxonomy and discussion of different capability models.

SRL2003-01 Chris Riley, Christian Scheideler, and Jonathan S. Shapiro, Hash Systems for Single Disk Allocation

An investigation of hashing strategies for disk block placement in a randomization-based placement scheme.

SRL2000-01 J. S. Shapiro The Practical Application of a Decidable Access Model

A copy of our 2001 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy submission.

SRL2000-02 J. S. Shapiro, ed. Operating System Requirements for Liquid Software

A list of requirements and discussion points for operating systems that support liquid software.

SRL2000-03 J. S. Shapiro First-Class Flexpage-Based Address Spaces

Describes a reformulation of L4-style address spaces that eliminates the need for in-kernel resource allocation.

SRL2000-04 J. S. Shapiro Managing Capabilities by Dynamic Single Assignment

Describes a new approach to descriptor management that yields faster descriptor transfer and a simplre interrupt-driven kernel design.