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Record W2523880200 · doi:10.22215/etd/2014-10421

Securing Decentralized Software Installation and Updates

2014· dissertation· en· W2523880200 on OpenAlexaff
David Barrera

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceComputer securityDelegateSoftwareTrusted Platform ModuleSoftware security assuranceAuthentication (law)Software deploymentWorld Wide WebSoftware engineeringOperating systemSecurity serviceInformation security

Abstract

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Software installation and updates have become simpler for end users in recent years. The commoditization of the internet has enabled users to obtain more software than ever before from more developers than ever before. Additionally, software installation now requires less input from users, allowing installation with merely a single click or tap. At the same time, different software installation models with varying levels of security, usability and freedom have emerged. In centralized environments, available software is limited by an authority, whereas decentralized environments allow users and developers to interact freely. Decentralized software installation ecosystems pose the most significant security challenges due to the lack of centralized control. I'd like to thank my advisor, Dr. Paul C. van Oorschot for his guidance, feedback, advice and support during my time (7 years!) as a graduate student. Throughout my degrees, Paul always kept me on track, helping me make the best use of my time. Paul's knowledge and style have, without a doubt, helped me

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.920
Threshold uncertainty score0.811

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2014
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