Re: [dm-crypt] General question: Encrypytion on virtual servers (VPS/Vserver)

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 14:58:07 CET, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 02:42:51PM +0100, michaelof@rocketmail.com wrote:
[...]
> If the attacker has access to the physical host while your VM is running,
> then (with current hardware) there is essentially nothing you can do to
> prevent a skilled person getting your master key out of VM memory. AMD
> recently announced a memory encryption feature that might make it possible
> to protect guest keys from a host attacker, but its still very early days
> in its developement & integration into virtualization technology, so a very
> long way off being available in any public hosting provider.

I think this is more about proteching VMs from each other than 
from the Hypervisor, think memory deduplication, copy-on-write
and caches that leak information from one VM to another.  

Regards,
Arno


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