Software Interceptors & Wrappers

Useful Resources

• truss - System Call tracer
  Utility of the Solaris operating system
• strace - System Call tracer
  Utility of the Linux operating system
• TCP Wrappers - Securing your Network (article by Paul Dunne)
  Dr. W.Z. Venema, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Standardization Efforts

• Portable Interceptors for CORBA
  The Object Management Group (OMG)

Software Interceptors

• API Interception
  P. Dasgupta, V. Karamcheti and Z. Kedem
• COLA : Customized Overlaying
  Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT & T Laboratories
• Detours : Binary Interception for Win32 Applications
  Galen Hunt, Microsoft Research
• The Eternal Interceptor (for CORBA)
  Priya Narasimhan, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (now at Carnegie-Mellon University)
• Instrumented/Mediating Connectors
  Bob Balzer, Information Sciences Institute, CA
• Interposition Agents
  Michael B. Jones, Carnegie-Mellon University (now at Microsoft Research)
• Janus - Sandboxing Untrusted Applications
  David Wagner et al., University of California, Berkeley, CA
• UFO Global File System
  Klaus Schauser, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
• Valgrind
  Open-source GPL'd program for debugging/profiling Linux x86 programs
• Libsafe - Protecting Critical Elements of Stacks
  Avaya Labs Research