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A note on the confinement problem
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onfining a program during its execution so that it cannot transmit information to any other program except its caller. A set of examples attempts to stake out the boundaries of the problem. Necessary conditions for a solution are stated and informally justified.
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- Authors
- Lampson, B. W.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1973-10
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 613-615
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2099137371
- Cited by
- 1,429
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 21.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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