Preliminary design of the SAFE platform
André M. DeHon, Ben Karel, Thomas F. Knight, Gregory Malecha, Benoît Montagu, Robin Morisset, Greg Morrisett, Benjamin C. Pierce, Randy Beth Pollack, Sumit Kumar Ray, Olin Shivers, Jonathan M. Smith, Gregory Thomas SULLIVAN · 2011
Safe is a clean-slate design for a secure host architecture. It integrates advances in programming languages, operating systems, and hardware and incorporates formal methods at every step. Though the project is still at an early stage, we have assembled a set of basic architectural choices that we believe will yield a high-assurance system. We sketch the current state of the design and discuss several of these choices.