Attestation is a fundamental building block to establish trust over software systems. When
used in conjunction with trusted execution environments, it guarantees the genuineness of …

The increasing number of threats targeting cloud computing and the exploitation of
specifically privileged software vulnerabilities have pushed the security managers of cloud …

The increasing use of sensitive private data in computing is matched by a growing concern
regarding data privacy. System software such as hypervisors and operating systems are …

AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) is a hardware extension available in AMD's
EPYC server processors to support confidential cloud computing. While various prior studies …

AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) offers protection mechanisms for virtual
machines in untrusted environments through memory and register encryption. To separate …

AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) is an emerging technology to secure virtual
machines (VM) even in the presence of malicious hypervisors. However, the lack of trust in …

Hardware-assisted memory encryption offers strong confidentiality guarantees for trusted
execution environments like Intel SGX and AMD SEV. However, a recent study by Li et al …

Cloud computing is one of the most prominent technologies to host Internet services that
unfortunately leads to an increased risk of data theft. Customers of cloud services have to …

AMD SEV is a hardware feature designed for the secure encryption of virtual machines. SEV
aims to protect virtual machine memory not only from other malicious guests and physical …

One reason for not adopting cloud services is the required trust in the cloud provider: As they
control the hypervisor, any data processed in the system is accessible to them. Full memory …