M-TREE: A high efficiency security architecture for protecting integrity and privacy of software

An immune inspired co-evolutionary affinity network for prefetching of distributed object

“…Artificial immune system is a computational intelligence paradigm, which has found applications in data mine [17], scheduling [30], control [31], machine learning [13,22], security [25,19], optimization [12], and many other fields [6]. However, most studies are limited within several immune principles and models, including clonal selection [8], negative selection [20], immune network [9], and danger model [25], which are utilized independently.…”

Toward Highly Secure and Autonomic Computing Systems: A Hierarchical Approach

“…Despite a number of secure processor designs have been proposed, they typically made trade-offs between security and execution efficiency. To address these shortcomings, we investigated and proposed a novel secure processor architecture called M-TREE [2] that offers a significant performance advantage without compromising security strength. The M-TREE architecture uses a novel technique called hierarchical Message Authentication Tree (MACTree) for protecting applications' integrity at a minimal performance overhead.…”

“…With respect to the hash latency, we did not find the latency increase from 80ns to 160ns imposes any major performance issue in both our scheme and the CHTree scheme in general. For more research results, please refer to our publication in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing [2].…”

A low overhead hardware technique for software integrity and confidentiality

“…Lu et al [26] propose a similar architecture to that of Gassend, using a tree of message authentication codes (MACs). Cache block MACs are computed from hashes of the cache block, its virtual address, and an application-specific secret key.…”