[Dailydave] VPC

[Rodrigo Rubira Branco (BSDaemon)]

> I have only seen defensive implementations such as the work of
> Garfinkel and Rosenblum at Stanford.  Their use case is a modified
> hypervisor that can monitor critical OS data structures.  One of their
> implementations watches the Linux system call table and can prevent
> modification to thwart rootkits.
>
> I think it's a great idea, I'd be interested in seeing any published
> work you have on the topic.

StMichael running in SMM tries to accomplish the same in architectures where
virtualization is not supported:
http://www.kernelhacking.com/rodrigo/docs/H2HCIV.pdf

The idea is to port it also to be implemented using the hypervisor support
of the modern processors...



cya,



Rodrigo (BSDaemon)


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