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Ahmad et al., 2023 - Google Patents

Veil: A protected services framework for confidential virtual machines

Ahmad et al., 2023

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8981452792115554504
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Ahmad A
Ou B
Liu C
Zhang X
Fonseca P
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Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 4

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Confidential virtual machines (CVMs) enabled by AMD SEV provide a protected environment for sensitive computations on an untrusted cloud. Unfortunately, CVMs are typically deployed with huge and vulnerable operating system kernels, exposing the CVMs …
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