Re: Immune systems: some reading in the light of CodeGreen and CleanCR

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Some other useful links on computer immunity/immune systems ... T


http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/research/AIdrift/AIdrift.html
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~immsec/

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Tony Link

emerson.c.tan () ca andersen com wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I've been looking at the CodeGreen thread and it has made me revisit some
> old ideas about automatic/autonomous responses to worms and Virii. While
> CodeGreen and CleanCR are interesting in and of themselves, the idea of an
> anti-worm worm is not new, nor is the idea of a digital immune system
> modeled on that of vertebrate animals.
>
> These immune systems have to cope with all sorts of threats that a
> particular individual creature has not faced before, and the way that those
> immune systems pass on immunity to cells (or in this case machines or
> nodes) has spured some thinking.
>
> I suggest people interested in these ideas look at:
>
> http://www.sciam.com/1197issue/1197kephart.html
>
> and have a look at the article. Something like what they describe would be
> a good general case solution for things like Code Red, were it to be
> implemented widely and in an open source fashion. Widespread systems such
> as the immune system as described would also be able to communicate to each
> other, potentially walling off an outbreak before it even hit the wider
> internet, thus allowing unpatched machines to go on functioning normally
> until their own local immune system patched them in due course.
>
> Anyways, it's an interesting paper, and the 1995 paper cited is well worth
> reading.
>
> Emerson
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