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Re: COmpare Firewalls


From: Crispin Cowan <crispin () cse ogi edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:16:53 +0000

"Kertesz, Imre" wrote:

There has been some good discussion recently on the notion of
Application Sandboxing, where rather than monitoring for identifyable
threads, application behavior is monitored at the process level.
Actually, Sir Dystic of CdC fame and author of the original Back Orifice
is supposedly coding a demo of this concept. He has some good
explanation on his WinAPI page:

http://www.cultdeadcow.com/~sd/windoze.html

At USENIX Security last month, Marcus gave an invited talk that addressed
some similar ideas, followed by a technical paper track that I called
"Cages" presenting three different approaches for "sandboxing"
applications.  Get your further information here:
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/technical.html

Crispin



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