OSDI '23 - Core slicing: closing the gap between leaky confidential VMs and bare-metal cloud

OSDI '23 - Core slicing: closing the gap between leaky confidential VMs and bare-metal cloud

Ziqiao Zhou, Microsoft Research, Yizhou Shan, University of California, San Diego, Weidong Cui, Microsoft Research, Xinyang Ge, Microsoft Research, Marcus Peinado, Microsoft Research, Andrew Baumann, Microsoft Research

Virtual machines are the basis of resource isolation in today's public clouds, yet the security risks of entrusting that isolation to a cloud provider's hypervisor are substantial. Such concerns have motivated the design of hardware extensions for "confidential …

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