January 2009
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===================================== Genode Labs Newsletter - January 2009 ===================================== Content 1. Genode on L4ka::Pistachio kernel 2. Visit us at the Embedded World exhibition 2009 3. Dissertation on Securing Graphical User Interfaces 1. Genode on the L4ka::Pistachio kernel --------------------------------------- In the mid of December, we have made the port of the Genode OS Framework to the L4ka::Pistachio kernel publicly available. L4ka::Pistachio is a high-performance L4 microkernel implementing the latest official L4 API. This kernel is developed in joint work of the University of Karlsruhe and the University of New South Wales. It is used as basis for both academic research projects and commercial applications. With this modern kernel having become available as a platform for Genode, we are able to advance Genode towards virtualization and multi-processor support. http://www.l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/ The port of Genode to L4ka::Pistachio was initially done by Julian Stecklina as a student research project at the University of Technology Dresden. In cooperation, we integrated his work with the mainline Genode development. The L4ka::Pistachio version is now available at our subversion repository and will become a regular part of the official Genode distribution with upcoming release scheduled for February. You can find further information about using Genode on L4ka::Pistachio at the following Wiki page: http://genode.org/community/wiki/GenodeOnL4kaPistachio 2. Visit us at the Embedded World exhibition 2009 ------------------------------------------------- Thanks to the kind support of Trenz Electronic, we have the opportunity to present Genode Labs as co-exhibitor at this year's Embedded World exhibition. The focus of our presentation will be our FPGA-based GUI solution called Genode FX. If you are interested in seeing Genode FX in action or in meeting us in person, we invite you to visit at the embedded world: Nuremberg, Germany March 03-05, 2009 Visit us: hall 12, booth 12-536 3. Dissertation on Securing Graphical User Interfaces ----------------------------------------------------- On 5th of January, Founding member of Genode Labs Norman Feske successfully defended his dissertation on Securing Graphical User Interfaces and thereby earned the academic title Dr.-Ing. The dissertation covers more than 5 years of research about the design and implementation of graphical user interfaces in the context of security-sensitive and real-time systems: Malware such as Trojan Horses and spyware remain to be persistent security threats that exploit the overly complex graphical user interfaces of today's commodity operating systems. Current GUI architectures have to find a balance between the four conflicting goals of maintaining compatibility to existing applications, providing quality of service, operating at high performance, and of being secure, whereby the latter goal still remains widely disregarded by mainstream GUI architectures. The challenge of my work was to resolve the conflict. I developed key techniques and substantiated the concepts by a number of exhaustive experiments. The resulting architecture consolidates the advantages of extremely low source-code complexity, full client isolation, protection against spyware and Trojan Horses, bounded output latency, and compatibility to existing applications into one GUI-server design. We plan to make the full text of the document publicly available soon. About the newsletter -------------------- If you have friends or colleagues who might be interested in our projects, we would appreciate you to forward this email. If you received this newsletter as a forwarded email, you may subscribe to the newsletter here: http://genode-labs.com/newsletter In the case of receiving this newsletter unintended, you can cancel your subscription at any time by replying to this email with the subject set to "unsubscribe". Best regards -- Norman Feske Genode Labs http://www.genode-labs.com ยท http://genode.org
