System and Method for mitigating TOC/TOU attacks in a cloud computing enviroment

A computer system, method, and computer program product for mitigating TOCTOU attacks, which includes: as processor requesting measurements representing operation of a first process on a host that is untrusted and based on the requesting, obtaining the measurements, which include a checksum that is...

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Main Authors Chiang C. Jason, Kubota Ayumu, Ghosh Abhrajit, Sapello Angelo, Poylisher Alexander, Matsunaka Takashi
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 16.05.2017
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:A computer system, method, and computer program product for mitigating TOCTOU attacks, which includes: as processor requesting measurements representing operation of a first process on a host that is untrusted and based on the requesting, obtaining the measurements, which include a checksum that is a result of a second process executing checksum code to verify at least one last branch record on the host. A processor also determined, based on the measurements, whether the first process was compromised.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201514743774