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Secure Linking: a Framework for Trusted Software Components

Report ID:
TR-662-02
Date:
August 2002
Pages:
10
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Abstract:

In linking together a software system from components in the presence
of multiple versions, digital signatures, static type information,
software fetched over networks, multiple vendors, local libraries, and
so on, the policies guiding linking may be quite complex. We show how
to describe such policies in a ``linking logic'' that is modular and
provably sound.
We show a prototype implementation, and we show that
this logic is expressive and general enough to describe a real-world
system: the Microsoft .NET ``assembly'' versioning system.
The framework is general
and expressive enough to represent other existing linking systems and
to help different linking systems (and public key infrastructures)
interoperate.

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