Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Total hypervisor encryptor
- Patent Title (中): 总管理程序加密器
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Application No.: US13791742Application Date: 2013-03-08
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Publication No.: US08868908B2Publication Date: 2014-10-21
- Inventor: Jeffrey Earl MacMillan , Jason Arthur Offrey
- Applicant: Dark Matter Labs Inc.
- Applicant Address: CA
- Assignee: Dark Matter Labs, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Dark Matter Labs, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: CA
- Agency: Lowe Graham Jones PLLC
- Agent John W. Branch
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/60 ; G06F21/70 ; G06F21/78

Abstract:
Embodiments are directed towards providing cryptographic services to protect guest operating system (OS) images in virtualized computing environments. A hypervisor may trap privileged operations initiated by guest OS images. These trapped operations may be intercepted by a cryptographic module. A hypervisor may trap a write operation made by a guest OS image, and cryptographic module may encrypt the write buffer and return it the hypervisor. A hypervisor may trap a read operation made by a guest OS image, and provide the encrypted data to the cryptographic module for decrypting. If the data is decrypted, the cryptographic module may provide the decrypted data to the hypervisor which provides the decrypted data to the guest OS image. Also, guest OS image context information may be decrypted and encrypted as the guest OS image is scheduled and de-scheduled on physical CPU(s). Further, if necessary entire guest OS images may be encrypted.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140258716A1 TOTAL HYPERVISOR ENCRYPTOR Public/Granted day:2014-09-11
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