Chapter 1. Android’s Security Model
This chapter will first briefly introduce Android’s architecture, inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism, and main components. We then describe Android’s security model and how it relates to the underlying Linux security infrastructure and code signing. We conclude with a brief overview of some newer additions to Android’s security model, namely multi-user support, mandatory access control (MAC) based on SELinux, and verified boot. Android’s architecture and security model are built on top of the traditional Unix process, user, and file paradigm, but this paradigm is not described from scratch here. We assume a basic familiarity with Unix-like systems, particularly Linux.
Android’s Architecture
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