From: "François Revol" <revol@free.fr>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:17:14 +0200 CEST [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1603265261-BeMail@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9E178D.90804@redhat.com>
> > At least looking naively at QEMU, it seems that its CPU and RAM are
> > well protected from the host operating system--in a way to say make
> > it
> > practically impossible for some malware to extract the secret key
> > used
> > in a virtual machine.
>
> I don't understand: the host operating system, by definition, can see
> everything. A privileged process (i.e. running as root) can always
> look
> at /dev/mem and read info about QEMU's CPU and RAM.
Or attach gdb and step the whole thing or put breakpoints on
ReadPassword() :)
François.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-02 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-31 16:08 [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"? Bud P. Bruegger
2009-09-01 22:27 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-09-01 23:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-02 14:58 ` Blue Swirl
2009-09-03 15:09 ` Bud P. Bruegger
2009-09-03 18:51 ` Blue Swirl
2009-09-04 12:08 ` Paul Brook
2009-09-04 13:12 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-09-04 13:40 ` Bud P. Bruegger
2009-09-05 2:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-02 6:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-09-02 9:17 ` François Revol [this message]
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