| Abstract: | To prevent malicious virtual machine from harming the security of vTPM-VM live migration process, we propose an improved vTPM-VM live migration protocol which uses a TPM-based integrity verification policy and a specific encryption scheme to enhance security. The TPM-based integrity verification policy is presented to ensure that all participating entities in this process are trustworthy. In data transfer phase, the specific encryption scheme is designed to associate the decipher process with one certain platform status so that only the destination platform can gain the key data of the migrated VM and vTPM instance. The security of this new protocol is analyzed. The results show that this protocol can effectively resist most of the attacks in the process of vTPM-VM live migration. |
