Security Analysis of Encrypted Virtual Machines
Felicitas Hetzelt, Robert Buhren · 2017
Cloud computing has become indispensable in today's computer landscape. The flexibility it offers for customers as well as for providers has become a crucial factor for large parts of the computer industry. Virtualization is the key technology that allows for sharing of hardware resources among different customers. The controlling software component, called hypervisor, provides a virtualized view of the computer resources and ensures separation of different guest virtual machines. However, this important cornerstone of cloud computing is not necessarily trustworthy or bug-free. To mitigate this threat AMD introduced Secure Encrypted Virtualization, short SEV, which transparently encrypts a virtual machines memory.