May 14, 2025 Outline Revision 1

Reading: text, §18.1–18.2
Assignments: Homework #3, due May 16 May 14; Project report, due June 6 at 3:00pm

Module 50 (Reading: text, §18.1)

1. Confinement problem
   1. What it is
   2. Covert channels
   3. Rule of transitive confinement
   4. Difficulty of preventing leaking

Module 51 (Reading: text, §18.2)

2. Isolation: virtual machines

3. Isolation: non-virtual containers
   1. Library operating systems
   2. Sandboxes

4. Isolation: program modification
   1. Software fault isolation
   2. Compiling
   3. Loading

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ECS 235B, Foundations of Computer and Information Security Version of May 13, 2025 at 12:49PM

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