seL4 in Australia: From Research to Real-World Trustworthy Systems

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TitleseL4 in Australia: From Research to Real-World Trustworthy Systems
AuthorsGernot Heiser; Gerwin Klein; June Andronick
Typearticle
Year2020
Citekeyheiser2020sel4

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Published inCommunications of the ACM
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Volume63
Issue4
Pages72--75

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/3378426
OpenAlexW3010700826

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Landing pagehttps://doi.org/10.1145/3378426
Free full texthttps://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3378426

Abstract

The seL4 microkernel was the first operating system proved functionally correct to the source-code level. We provide an overview of its development since, in terms of extending verification, evolving the kernel to support wider classes of real-world systems, discuss some of the frameworks that allow extending verification guarantees to other critical system components, as well as real-world deployments.

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@article{heiser2020sel4,
  title = {seL4 in Australia: From Research to Real-World Trustworthy Systems},
  author = {Gernot Heiser and Gerwin Klein and June Andronick},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Communications of the ACM},
  volume = {63},
  number = {4},
  pages = {72--75},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi = {10.1145/3378426},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3378426},
}

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