Sheikh-Ansari, F., & Yang, B. (2015, June), A Pilot Study on VM Template Authentication  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23423

\bibitem{asee_peer_23423}
  Sheikh-Ansari, F., \& Yang, B. (2015, June), \emph{A Pilot Study on VM Template Authentication}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.23423

Forough Sheikh-Ansari and Baijian Yang.  "A Pilot Study on VM Template Authentication".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/23423 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_23423}
  Forough Sheikh-Ansari and Baijian Yang.
  "A Pilot Study on VM Template Authentication".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/23423 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

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AB  - A Pilot Study on VM Template AuthenticationSecurity is the top concerns when moving IT infrastructure and the business data to thecloud environment. Three common service models defined by NIST are Infrastructure Asa Service (IaaS), Platform As a Service (PaaS), and Software As a Service (SaaS). Thiswork focuses on the authenticity and integrity of virtual machine templates in IaaSenvironment. The research question is significant because virtual machines are oftencloned from the templates to provide rapid deployment for customers. As a result, anyattacks on the VM template can be catastrophic.So how do we prove the authenticity of the VM template and how do we protect VMtemplate from being manipulated? If cryptophytic approach is applied, how long will ittake to authenticate VM templates? This work will first study related work and propose acryptography based solution to authenticate VM templates. A few real virtual machinetemplates of different sizes will be tested to measure the performance of differentapproaches. The results will demonstrate if cryptographically based solution is practicaland if so what approach is likely produce better results. From practical point of view, thisstudy will provide insights and benefits for both the cloud consumers and the cloudproviders.In this article, the following key concepts will be visited:      Accessibility and visibility of different layers of cloud service models.      VM template authentication techniques          o VM template authentication using Digital Signature          o VM template authentication using cryptographic hash functions          o VM template authentication using Message Authentication Code (MAC)      Cryptographic architecture of Amazon EC2      Proposed PKI based VM template authentication          o Experiments and results          o Conclusions and recommendationsIn short, VM Template validation is an important task to secure virtual machinedeployment in the cloud environment. Existing cryptography based approaches will bereviewed and a new approach will be proposed and evaluated to gain better understandingof the performance the complications of VM template authentication techniques.References:Following articles/sites will be reviewed:[1]  Final Version of NIST Cloud Computing Definition Published. Retrieved on April     20, 2014 from http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/cloud-102511.cfm.[2] P. Mell and T. Grance, The NIST definition of cloud computing (NIST SP 800-145),     National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce     (2011). Retrieved from http://csrc.nist. gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-     145.pdf[3] Chandramouli, R., Iorga, M., & Chokhani, S. (2014). Cryptographic Key     Management Issues and Challenges in Cloud Services (pp. 1-30). Springer New     York.[4] Liu, F., Tong, J., Mao, J., Bohn, R., Messina, J., Badger, L., & Leaf, D. (2011). NIST     cloud computing reference architecture. NIST Special Publication, 500, 292.[5] Grobauer, B., Walloschek, T., & Stocker, E. (2011). Understanding cloud computing     vulnerabilities. Security & privacy, IEEE, 9(2), 50-57.[6] Di Costanzo, A., De Assuncao, M. D., & Buyya, R. (2009). Harnessing cloud     technologies for a virt ualized distributed computing infrastructure. Internet     Computing, IEEE, 13(5), 24-33.[7] Amazon-Elastic-Compute-Cloud-Amazon-EC2. Retrieved on April 22, 2014 from     http://searchaws.techtarget.com/definition/Amazon-Elastic-Compute-Cloud-Amazon-     EC2[8] Amazon EC2. Retrieved on April 22, 2014 from http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/[9] The Top 20 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Vendors. Retrieved on April 22, 2014     from http://www.clouds360.com/iaas.php[10] Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Retrieved on April 22, 2014 from     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_ec2[11] George Reese. (2008). Key Security Issues for the Amazon Cloud. Retrieved on April     22, 2014 from http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/key-security-issues-for-the-     am.html[12] Stephen Akiki. Getting the SHA-1 (or MD5) hash of a directory. Retrieved on April     25, 2014 from http://akiscode.com/getarticle.php?id
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