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SoftwarePot: A Secure Software Circulation System. Yoshihiro OYAMA (Univ. of Tokyo / JST) Kazuhiko KATO (Univ. of Tsukuba / JST). SoftwarePot in a NutShell. Provides virtual environment “ Pot ” Pot has private namespace of resources Contains private file tree (like chroot jail)
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SoftwarePot: A Secure Software Circulation System Yoshihiro OYAMA (Univ. of Tokyo / JST) Kazuhiko KATO (Univ. of Tsukuba / JST)
SoftwarePot in a NutShell • Provides virtual environment “Pot” • Pot has private namespace of resources • Contains private file tree (like chroot jail) • Virtual resource in pot can be mapped to real external resource • Snapshots of pots (pot files) are distributed as software packages • Like Zip files
pot file user developer user user
pot process process process remote machine security policy
Installation/Uninstallation • Files in package are not extracted and installed into the original file system • Installation: downloading pot file • Uninstallation: deleting pot file • Execution:“stacking” resource views • Like UnionFS
Security Policy • How to “plant” pot in real environment • How to control accesses map: /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib /dev/null /dev/null /extern_world /home/oyama/shared_dir_for_pot … socket: allow connect *.u-tokyo.ac.jp 80 redirect 202.226.93.133 23 -> 130.158.85.97 10023
Advantages • Reduced effort is required • for describing access control policies • Because accessible external resources are minimized • for preparing resources in virtual environment • Because they are distributed as pot files
Implementation • User-level middleware • Syscall interception and sysarg modification • Linux: our kernel module • Solaris: procfs • One monitor process attached to each application process • Measured overhead: 6~21%