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The MONADS project has as its principle aim the investigation of techniques for the development of secure and reliable computer systems. However, unlike many other comparable projects we have not limited our investigations to software, but have sought solutions in terms of an integrated architecture involving both hardware and software. We begin by describing the MONADS architecture and show how it supports protected information-hiding modules and persistence in an in-process environment. From this discussion we derive four requirements of a physical implementation of the architecture. We then describe the MONADS-MM implementation and demonstrate how a conventional RISC processor can be used as the basic processing element of a system meeting these requirements. The resulting system provides fine-grain control over access to data and inherent support for persistence. An additional feature of the MONADS-MM design is support for a main memory of up to 64 gigabytes.
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Koch, D., Rosenberg, J. (1990). A Secure RISC-based Architecture Supporting Data Persistence. In: Rosenberg, J., Keedy, J.L. (eds) Security and Persistence. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3178-6_13
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