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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Vishal Agarwal, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sunil P. Gottumukkala, Redmond, WA (US);
Arun U. Kishan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dave M. McPherson, Bothell, WA (US);
Jonathan M. Andes, Seattle, WA (US);
Giridharan Sridharan, Redmond, WA (US);
Kinshuman Kinshumann, Redmond, WA (US);
Adam Damiano, Redmond, WA (US);
Salahuddin J. Khan, Redmond, WA (US);
Gopinathan Kannan, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The techniques and systems described herein present various implementations of a model for authenticating processes for execution and specifying and enforcing permission restrictions on system resources for processes and users. In some implementations, a binary file for an application, program, or process may be augmented to include a digital signature encrypted with a key such that an operating system may subsequently authenticate the digital signature. Once the binary file has been authenticated, the operating system may create a process and tag the process with metadata indicating the type of permissions that are allowed for the process. The metadata may correspond to a particular access level for specifying resource permissions.