Developing a Xen hypervisor based alternate defense against cipher suite downgrade attacks for virtual TLS servers

• Main Author: Pathangi Janardhanan Jatinshravan
• Other Authors: Alwen Fernanto Tiu
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70367
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

TLS is a commonly used protocol that provides a secure communication channel through the use of encryption and is widely used by HTTPS websites. TLS allows client/server applications to communicate securely in a way that is “designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery” [1]. Howe...