Publications, Presentations, Protocols, and Patents

Publications

Presentations

    Device Drivers

  • Decaf: Moving Device Drivers to a Modern Language talk at USENIX, June 2009. (pdf )
  • The Design and Implementation of Microdrivers talk at ASPLOS, March 2008. (pdf )
  • Improving the Reliabibility of Commodity Operating Systems talk given at UIUC ACM Reflections/Projections Conference, October 2006. (pdf)
  • Improving the Reliabibility of Commodity Operating Systems job talk given at various places in 2005 (pdf)
  • Recovery Device Drivers talk at OSDI 2004, December 2004. (pdf)
  • Recovering Device Drivers, or Cleaning Up Nooks talk in UW class CSE551: Graduate Operating Systems (pdf)
  • Shadow Drivers: Transparent Recovery for Kernel Extensions poster at UW industrial Affiliates, February 2004 (pdf)
  • Improving the Reliability of Commodity Operating Systems talk at SOSP 2003, October 2003 (pdf)
  • Nooks poster at UW industrial Affiliates, February 2003 (pdf)
  • Nooks: an architecture for reliable device drivers talk at ACM SIGOPS worksop, September 2002(ppt)
  • Nooks: an architecture for reliable device drivers talk at UW Networking and Systems Retreat, June 2002 (ppt)

    • Transactional Memory

  • OS Support for Virtualizing Transactional Memory talk at TRANSACT 2008. (pdf )

Internet Requests for Comment


Internet Drafts

  • "The Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos encryption type", John Brezak, Michael Swift, 11/15/2000.
  • "Lightweight Kerberos Mechanism", J Trostle, Michael Swift, 11/22/2000 (expired).
  • "Kerberos Set/Change Password: Version 2", Michael Swift, Jonathan Trostle, John Brezak, Bill Gossman 4/2000. (expired)
  • "Extending the GSS Kerberos Mechanism for Initial Kerberos Authentication (IAKERB)", Michael Swift, Jonathan Trostle, Bernard Aboba and Glen Zorn, 7/2001 (expired).
  • "User to User Kerberos Authentication using GSS-API",  Michael Swift 10/1999 (expired).
  • "Extensions to Kerberos V5 For Additional Initial Encryption", Jonathan Trostle and Michael M. Swift, 12/24/1999 (expired).
  • "Generating KDC referrals to locate Kerberos Realms", Michael Swift, J. Brezak, J. Trostle, K. Raeburn, 2/2001 (expired).

Patents:

  • US07113994: “System and method of proxy authentication in a secured network,” by M. Swift, N. Amit, R. Ward, issued September 2006.
  • US6625603: “Object-type specific access control,” by P. Garg, M. Swift, C. Van Dyke, R. Ward, and P. Brundrett, issued September 2003.
  • US6505300: “Method and system for secure running of untrusted content,” by S. Chan, G.  Jensenworth, M. Goertzel, B. Shah, M. Swift, and R. Ward, issued January 2003.
  • US6427209: “System and method of user logon in combination with user authentication for network access,” by J. Brezak, R. Ward, M. Swift, P. Leach, issued July 2002.
  • US6412070: “Extensible security system and method for controlling access to objects in a computing environment,” by C. Van Dyke, P. Brundrett, M. Swift, P. Garg, and R. Ward, issued June 2002.
  • US6401211: “System and method of user logon in combination with user authentication for network access,” by J. Brezak, R. Ward, M. Swift, and P. Leach, issued June 2002.
  • US6377691: “Challenge-response authentication and key exchange for a connectionless security protocol,” by M. Swift and B. Shah, issued Apr. 2002.
  • US6308274: “Least privilege via restricted tokens,” by M. Swift, issued Oct. 2001.
  • US6289458: “Per-property access control mechanism,” by P. Garg, M. Swift, C. Van Dyke, R. Ward, and P. Brundrett, issued Sept. 2001.
  • US6279111: “Security model using restricted tokens,” by G. Jensenworth, P. Garg, M. Swift, M. Goertzel, and S. Chan, issued Aug. 2001.
  • US6189100: “Ensuring the integrity of remote boot client data,” by A. Barr, M. Swift, and C. Lenzmeier, issued Feb. 2001.
  • US5768519: “Method and apparatus for merging user accounts from a source security domain into a target security domain,” by M. Swift, C. Van Dyke, R. Reichel, P. Misra, M. Seaman, J. Kelly, issued June 1998.
  • US5761669: “Controlling access to objects on multiple operating systems,” by D. Montague, P. Misra, M. Swift, and R. Reichel, issued June 1998.
  • US5719941: “Method for changing passwords on a remote computer,” by M. Swift, C. Van Dyke, and P. Misra, issued Feb. 1998.
  • US5708812: “Method and apparatus for Migrating from a source domain network controller to a target domain network controller,” by C. Van Dyke, M. Swift, K. Logan, and P. Misra, issued Jan 1998.