White et al., 1990 - Google Patents

ABYSS: An architecture for software protection

White et al., 1990

Document ID
16934819217266689566
Author
White S
Comerford L
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

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ABYSS (a basic Yorktown security system) is an architecture for protecting the execution of application software. It supports a uniform security service across the range of computing systems. The use of ABYSS in solving the software protection problem, especially in the …
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