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PoLPer: Process-Aware Restriction of Over-Privileged Setuid Calls in Legacy Applications

Advancing the State of Network Switch ASIC Offloading in the Linux Kernel

A Formally Verified NAT Stack

A Formally Verified NAT Stack

The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS

The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS

A kernel compression scheme for fractional differential equations

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Deconvolution of Gaussian Random Fields using the Graph Fourier Transform

PoLPer: Process-Aware Restriction of Over-Privileged Setuid Calls in Legacy Applications

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