From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Have any ideas about how to detect whether a program is running inside QEMU?
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:56:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060706105600.GA17018@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c13b6c000607060018y10cf5c8fwdce320e34fb0f333@mail.gmail.com>
James Lau wrote:
> My program is a utility for internet payment. It takes an important
> role in the payment process to ensure security. One of the key
> functions is that the program should detect which machine is paying.
> So while virtual machine (like QEMU) is present, it can cheat the
> program.
>
> Checking the hard disk model, cpu type, and other hardward
> informations makes little sense. Because the users or the hackers can
> easily modify these informations. So I need a QEMU internal checking
> method that hackers can't easily bypass.
But hackers can easily modify QEMU source. So how can you depend on
any feature of QEMU for your security checks?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-06 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-06 5:04 [Qemu-devel] Have any ideas about how to detect whether a program is running inside QEMU? James Lau
2006-07-06 6:48 ` Natalia Portillo
2006-07-06 6:55 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2006-07-06 7:18 ` James Lau
2006-07-06 8:20 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-07-06 10:33 ` Jan Marten Simons
2006-07-07 2:12 ` James Lau
2006-07-06 10:56 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2006-07-06 20:46 ` Daniel Serpell
2006-07-06 23:21 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-07-07 8:07 ` G Portokalidis
2006-07-07 20:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2006-07-07 0:06 ` Anthony Liguori
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