Communications of the ACM
Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
June 2009
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Technical Perspective: Reframing Security For the Web
The web has brought exciting new functionality while simultaneously requiring new mechanisms to make it secure. We've repeatedly discovered that these mechanisms are not good…
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Securing Frame Communication in Browsers
Many Web sites embed third-party content in frames, relying on the browser's security policy to protect against malicious content. However, frames provide insufficient isolation in browsers that let framed content navigate other…
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Technical Perspective: Software and Hardware Support For Deterministic Replay of Parallel Programs
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Two Hardware-Based Approaches For Deterministic Multiprocessor Replay
Modern computer systems are inherently nondeterministic due to a variety of events that occur during an execution. The lack of repeatability that arises from this nondeterminism can make it difficult to develop and maintain correct…