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Mobile phones are personal devices, and as such there is an increasing need for personalised, context-aware applications. This paper describes DCEF (Dynamic Code Execution Framework), a framework which allows applications to securely execute dynamically loaded code, providing new functionality such as client-side personalisation. DCEF ensures the user’s personal information remains safe while executing code from potentially untrusted sources. Our contributions are: the abstract design of DCEF; an evaluation of the security of our design; the implementation of DCEF; a demonstration that runtime performance is acceptable and validation of DCEF by using it to create an application which provides personalised information delivery about cultural heritage and museum sites.
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Pink, G., Gerber, S., Fry, M., Kay, J., Kummerfeld, B., Wasinger, R. (2012). Safe Execution of Dynamically Loaded Code on Mobile Phones. In: Sénac, P., Ott, M., Seneviratne, A. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_1
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