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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?
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François Revol |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU as a "virtual smart card"? |
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Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:17:14 +0200 CEST |
> > At least looking naively at QEMU, it seems that its CPU and RAM are
> > well protected from the host operating system--in a way to say make
> > it
> > practically impossible for some malware to extract the secret key
> > used
> > in a virtual machine.
>
> I don't understand: the host operating system, by definition, can see
> everything. A privileged process (i.e. running as root) can always
> look
> at /dev/mem and read info about QEMU's CPU and RAM.
Or attach gdb and step the whole thing or put breakpoints on
ReadPassword() :)
François.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Laurent Vivier, 2009/09/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Jamie Lokier, 2009/09/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Blue Swirl, 2009/09/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Bud P. Bruegger, 2009/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Blue Swirl, 2009/09/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Paul Brook, 2009/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Lennart Sorensen, 2009/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Bud P. Bruegger, 2009/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Jamie Lokier, 2009/09/04
[Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?, Paolo Bonzini, 2009/09/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?,
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