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Trusted client machine

Users must trust their local machine. This is, however, difficult to guarantee: providing for a secure program execution environment in an untrusted computing platform is an open problem. Some previous work aims to securely monitor loaded applications [48] or provide partitioned virtual machines to isolate vulnerabilities [10,48,50].



2003-01-06