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An Approach for Secure Software Installation
We present an approach that addresses the problem of securing software configurations from the security-relevant actions of poorly built/faulty installation packages. Our approach is based on a policy-based control of the package manager's actions and is customizable for site-specific policies. We discuss an implementation of this approach in the context of the Linux operating system for the Red Hat Package manager (RPM).
BibTeX
@inproceedings {270493,
author = {V.N. Venkatakrishnan and R. Sekar and T. Kamat and S. Tsipa and Z. Liang},
title = {An Approach for Secure Software Installation},
booktitle = {16th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 02)},
year = {2002},
address = {Philadelphia, PA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-02/approach-secure-software-installation},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
author = {V.N. Venkatakrishnan and R. Sekar and T. Kamat and S. Tsipa and Z. Liang},
title = {An Approach for Secure Software Installation},
booktitle = {16th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 02)},
year = {2002},
address = {Philadelphia, PA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-02/approach-secure-software-installation},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}