N-Variant Systems: A Secretless Framework for Security through Diversity

By Benjamin Cox, David E. Evans. USENIX Security Symposium, 2006

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GenProg: A Generic Method for Automatic Software Repair (2012, methodology): “Techniques for automatically detecting software flaws include intrusion detection [8], model checking and lightweight static analyses [9], [10], and software diversity methods [11], [12].”
Binary stirring: self-randomizing instruction addresses of legacy x86 binary code (2012, methodology): “Multi-variant Systems: Our work is also related to N-variant systems [11, 22, 47], which likewise leverage diversiﬁcation to improve security.”
Debugging the data plane with anteater (2011, background): “Monitoring the dynamics of the control plane can detect a broad class of failures [16, 20] with little overhead, but may miss bugs that only affect the data plane.”
PlatPal: Detecting Malicious Documents with Platform Diversity (2017, methodology): “[10] randomize sensitive data in program variants to mitigate privacy leaks; Mx [24] uses multiple versions of the same program to survive update bugs; Cocktail [66] uses multiple web browser implementations to survive vendor-specific attacks; and Nvariant [15], Replicae [8], and GHUMVEE [61] run pr”