Secure execution of Java applets using a remote playground

Dahlia Malkhi

doi:10.1109/32.888632

Secure execution of Java applets using a remote playground

2000-01-01

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DOI：10.1109/32.888632

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Mobile code presents a number of threats to machines that execute ii. We introduce an approach for protecting machines and the resources they hold from mobile code and describe a system based on our approach for protecting host machines from Java 1.1 applets. In our approach, each Java applet downloaded to the protected domain is rerouted to a dedicated machine (or set of machines), the playground, at which it is executed. Prior to execution, the applet is transformed to use the downloading user's web browser as a graphics terminal for its input and output and so the user has the illusion that the applet is running on her own machine. In reality, however, mobile code runs only in the sanitized environment of the playground, where user files cannot be mounted and from which only limited network connections are accepted by machines in the protected domain. Our playground thus provides a second level of defense against mobile code that circumvents language-based defenses. The paper presents the design and implementation of a playground for Java 1.1 applets and discusses extensions of it for other forms of mobile code, including Java 1.2.

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Java

mobile code

security

remote method invocation

Secure execution of Java applets using a remote playground

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