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doi:10.22028/D291-26560
Title: | Android security framework : enabling generic and extensible access control on Android |
Author(s): | Backes, Michael Bugiel, Sven Gerling, Sebastian von Styp-Rekowsky, Philipp |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
SWD key words: | Android |
Free key words: | android |
DDC notations: | 004 Computer science, internet |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | We introduce the Android Security Framework (ASF),a generic, extensible security framework for Android that enables the development and integration of a wide spectrum of security models in form of code-based security modules. The design of ASF reflects lessons learned from the literature on established security frameworks (such as Linux Security Modules or the BSD MAC Framework) and intertwines them with the particular requirements and challenges from the design of Android’s software stack. ASF provides a novel security API that supports authors of Android security extensions in developing their modules. This overcomes the current unsatisfactory situation to provide security solutions as separate patches to the Android software stack or to embed them into Android’s mainline codebase. As a result, ASF provides different practical benefits such as a higher degree of acceptance, adaptation, and maintenance of security solutions than previously possible on Android. We present a prototypical implementation of ASF and demonstrate its effectiveness and efficiency by modularizing different security models from related work, such as context-aware access control, inlined reference monitoring, and type enforcement. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-57346 hdl:20.500.11880/26616 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-26560 |
Series name: | Technischer Bericht / A / Fachbereich Informatik, Universität des Saarlandes |
Series volume: | 2014/01 |
Date of registration: | 4-Apr-2014 |
Faculty: | MI - Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik |
Department: | MI - Informatik |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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