StopWatch: A Cloud Architecture for Timing Channel Mitigation

• Main Authors: Li, Peng, GAO, Debin, Reiter, Michael K
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Timing channels; clouds; replication; side channels; virtualization; Computer Sciences; Information Security; Systems Architecture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2525; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3525/viewcontent/tissec14.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article 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. StopWatch triplicates each cloud-resident guest virtual machine (VM) and places replicas so that the three repl...