File integrity checking

Title: File integrity checking
Creator: Motara, Yusuf Moosa
ThesisAdvisor: Irwin, Barry Vivian William
Subject: Linux
Subject: Operating systems (Computers)
Subject: Database design
Subject: Computer security
Date: 2006
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MSc
Identifier: vital:4682
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007701
Identifier: Linux
Identifier: Operating systems (Computers)
Identifier: Database design
Identifier: Computer security
Description: This thesis looks at file execution as an attack vector that leads to the execution of unauthorized code. File integrity checking is examined as a means of removing this attack vector, and the design, implementation, and evaluation of a best-of-breed file integrity checker for the Linux operating system is undertaken. We conclude that the resultant file integrity checker does succeed in removing file execution as an attack vector, does so at a computational cost that is negligible, and displays innovative and useful features that are not currently found in any other Linux file integrity checker.
Format: 181 pages, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Science, Computer Science
Language: English
Rights: Motara, Yusuf Moosa

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