MS Publishes Papers For a Modern, Secure Browser

V!NCENT writes with an excerpt from a new publication by Microsoft: "As web sites evolved into dynamic web applications composing content from various web sites, browsers have become multi-principal operating environments with resources shared among mutually distrusting web site principals. Nevertheless, no existing browsers, including new architectures like IE 8, Google Chrome, and OP, have a multi-principal operating system construction that gives a browser-based OS the exclusive control to manage the protection of all system resources among web site principals. In this paper, we introduce Gazelle, a secure web browser constructed as a multi-principal OS. Gazelle's Browser Kernel is an operating system that exclusively manages resource protection and sharing across web site principals." Here's the full research paper (PDF).

Comments

Of all the companies out there, surely Microsoft

[unity100]

IS the one to put out a paper outlining guidelines for any secure software. we have decades of safe computer using and internet surfing to thank them for.

Re:Princi-what?

[speedtux]

And Java is as far from dead as possible. Sun won the lawsuit against MS, and Java is one of the most used server languages.

Java is dead on the client.

On the server, it's increasingly turning into a niche and legacy language, kind of like COBOL

Re:Right idea, wrong source

[magamiako1]

You're quoting an e-mail from 6 years ago, and more importantly what he said may have been out of context. You don't know what he meant by "wasn't usable". He did not elaborate.