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Fenix Secure Operating System: Principles, Models, and Architecture

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Information Assurance in Computer Networks (MMM-ACNS 2001)

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The paper introduces design principles of Secure Operating System Fenix developed in Information Security Centre of Saint-Petersburg Technical University. Fenix is a special purpose secure operating system supposed to be a basis for secure information processing. Fenix is fully compliant with Russian national information security requirements and standards. Security was the main goal of this project, other aspects of operating system were subject to it. Security functions enforcement was the main factor in the operating system design. Microkernel architecture, client-server technology and object-oriented approach form a core of the Fenix operating system design.

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  1. Information Security Centre of Saint-Petersburg Technical University, 195273, Saint-Petersburg, K-273, P/B 290, USA

    Dmitry P. Zegzhda, Pavel G. Stepanov & Alexey D. Otavin

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  1. Dmitry P. Zegzhda
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  1. St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS), SPIIRAS, 39, 14th Liniya, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199178

    Vladimir I. Gorodetski

  2. Watson Schoolof Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 13902, USA

    Victor A. Skormin

  3. Air Force Research Laboratory, Defensive Information Warfare Branch, 525 Brooks Road, Rome, NY, 13441-4505, Italy

    Leonard J. Popyack

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Zegzhda, D.P., Stepanov, P.G., Otavin, A.D. (2001). Fenix Secure Operating System: Principles, Models, and Architecture. In: Gorodetski, V.I., Skormin, V.A., Popyack, L.J. (eds) Information Assurance in Computer Networks. MMM-ACNS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2052. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45116-1_21

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