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MS Publishes Papers For a Modern, Secure Browser

Posted by Soulskill on 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).

3 of 296 comments (clear)

  1. Can't even get basic text right by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why is the part "among web site principals." on its own line? Can't Microsoft even do simple paragraphs right?

    1. Re:Can't even get basic text right by Yvan256 · · Score: 1, Troll

      What moron modded me troll? Not only I'm not lying about it, it's Microsoft's own fault. Go check the source of the page, "among web site principals." really is a single paragraph although it's clearly the end of the paragraph preceding it.

  2. Err by circlingthesun · · Score: 1, Troll

    This might be a good idea bit seeing that this is coming from microsoft, I'll just play it safe and avoid this technology at all cost.