Cooperation of Mutually Suspicious Subsystems in a Computer Utility

Abstract

The report describes practical protection mechanisms that allow mutually suspicious subsystems to cooperate in a single computation and still be protected from one another. The mechanisms are based on the division of a computation into independent domains of access privilege, each of which may encapsulate a protected subsystem. The central component of the mechanisms is a hardware processor that automatically enforces the access constraints associated with a multidomain computation implemented as a single execution point in a segmented virtual memory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0750173

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  • Michael D. Schroeder

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Computer science

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  • Cybersecurity.
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