Key recovery in public clouds: A survey on cross-vm side channel attacks

Stelvio Cimato, Ernesto Damiani, Silvia Mella, Ching Nung Yang

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Abstract

Isolation across virtual machines is one of the pillars on which the cloud computing paradigm relies on, allowing efficient use of shared resources among users who experience dedicated services. However side channel attacks have been recently demonstrated possible, showing how an adversary is enabled to recover sensible information by observing the behavior of a VM co-located on the same physical machine. In this paper we survey the current attacks, focusing on the ones targeted to extract private RSA keys, and discuss some possible countermeasures, offering a picture of the security challenges cloud providers need to address in order to provide strong guarantees to their customers.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationCloud Computing and Security - 2nd International Conference, ICCCS 2016, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsXingming Sun, Alex Liu, Elisa Bertino, Han-Chieh Chao
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages456-467
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319486703
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security, ICCCS 2016 - Nanjing, China
Duration: 29 Jul 201631 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10039 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security, ICCCS 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period29/07/1631/07/16

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