Preliminary design of the SAFE platform

Authors:
André DeHon;Ben Karel;Thomas F. Knight, Jr.;Gregory Malecha;Benoît Montagu;Robin Morisset;Greg Morrisett;Benjamin C. Pierce;Randy Pollack;Sumit Ray;Olin Shivers;Jonathan M. Smith;Gregory Sullivan
Affiliations:
University of Pennsylvania;University of Pennsylvania;BAE Systems;Harvard University;University of Pennsylvania;École Normale Supérieure Paris;Harvard University;University of Pennsylvania;Harvard University;BAE Systems;Northeastern University;University of Pennsylvania;BAE Systems
Venue:
PLOS '11 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Safe is a clean-slate design for a secure host architecture. It integrates advances in programming languages, operating systems, and hardware and incorporates formal methods at every step. Though the project is still at an early stage, we have assembled a set of basic architectural choices that we believe will yield a high-assurance system. We sketch the current state of the design and discuss several of these choices.