MS Publishes Papers For a Modern, Secure Browser

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 22, 2009 @06:11AM from the new-and-different dept.

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).

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Re:Does it really by isorox · 2009-02-22 07:11 · Score: 5, Funny

What is it about the Windows processes that makes them cost that much?
License fees?
The kernel has to ensure processes are obeying any DRM and WGA restrictions
Re:and trashes Google Chrome .. by Too+Much+Noise · 2009-02-22 07:43 · Score: 5, Funny

" Tahoma doesn't provide protection to existing browser principals."
That's it. I'm switching to Comic Sans.