Mitigating Access-Driven Timing Channels in Clouds using StopWatch

• Main Authors: LI, Peng, GAO, Debin, Reiter, Michael K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2038; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3037/viewcontent/dsn13.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper presents StopWatch , a system that defends against timing-based side-channel attacks that arise from coresidency of victims and attackers in infrastructure-as-a-service clouds. StopWatchtriplicates each cloud-resident guest virtual machine (VM) and places replicas so that the three replic...