The inability of humans to generate and remember strong secrets makes it difficult for people to manage cryptographic keys. To address this problem, numerous proposals have been suggested to enable a ...

FTP Mirror Tracker [Note 1] is a software package (written in Perl and C++) that enables transparent, user-controlled redirection to the nearest anonymous FTP mirror sites that are exact replicas of ...

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James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild ...

The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, ...

Skills and levels of expertise required for handling normal operations and incidents What are the standard or common practices of SRE that can be generalized beyond the SRE book? Additionally, we ...

Daniel Lowe Wheeler, Dropbox Inc.

Nathan Bronson, Zach Amsden, George Cabrera, Prasad Chakka, Peter Dimov, Hui Ding, Jack Ferris, Anthony Giardullo, Sachin Kulkarni, Harry Li, Mark Marchukov, Dmitri ...

Joshua Gluck, Florian Schaub, Amy Friedman, Hana Habib, Norman Sadeh, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Yuvraj Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University ...

W. T. Strayer, M. Lewis, and R. E. Cline, Jr., Sandia National Laboratories ...

The indirect overflow via pointers [4] overflows a buffer to overwrite a pointer, which is used subsequently to overwrite a code pointer. With this technique it is possible to overwrite the return ...

The Short Topics in System Administration books provide information not available elsewhere. Presenting topics in thorough, refereed fashion, they are small enough and flexible enough to grow with the ...