Request for assistance

Request for assistance

[Aditya Pendyala]

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Hi all,
We are students of International Institute of Technology,Bangalore,India.We
are doing project work on Xen hypervisor.We got your contact from *"Ian
Prat"*.
We have been assigned the task to prove the security of virtualization
environment provided by xen.We request your assistance in this regards and
clarify the following issues.

Does Xen follow any security model, in particular, does a Random Oracle (RO)
fit in Xen?
When there are concurrent Guest OS running on the same hardware, then there
has to be a mechanism for concurrency control and fairness, how does Xen
implement these?
Shared memory access has to make sure that one "malicious" OS doesn't access
other's memory, where and how is this done?
Similarly with shared network, how and where is security handled in this
case so that packets meant for one OS are not accessible to other OS?
Does xen has cryptography implementation in the code ?
If you have idea regarding *"provable security" *property of Xen , can you
give us a gist of it ?


Thanks&Regards,
Aditya Pendyala,
Reehan IL Ahmed Khan,
G MD Nabi Saheb,
Shwetha M,
Rishabh Namdeo

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Fwd: Request for assistance

[Aditya Pendyala]

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Adding my project team in the loop

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From: Aditya Pendyala <aditya.pendyala@iiitb.net>
Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Subject: Request for assistance
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com


Hi all,
We are students of International Institute of Technology,Bangalore,India.We
are doing project work on Xen hypervisor.We got your contact from *"Ian
Prat"*.
We have been assigned the task to prove the security of virtualization
environment provided by xen.We request your assistance in this regards and
clarify the following issues.

Does Xen follow any security model, in particular, does a Random Oracle (RO)
fit in Xen?
When there are concurrent Guest OS running on the same hardware, then there
has to be a mechanism for concurrency control and fairness, how does Xen
implement these?
Shared memory access has to make sure that one "malicious" OS doesn't access
other's memory, where and how is this done?
Similarly with shared network, how and where is security handled in this
case so that packets meant for one OS are not accessible to other OS?
Does xen has cryptography implementation in the code ?
If you have idea regarding *"provable security" *property of Xen , can you
give us a gist of it ?


Thanks&Regards,
Aditya Pendyala,
Reehan IL Ahmed Khan,
G MD Nabi Saheb,
Shwetha M,
Rishabh Namdeo

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