qubes-doc/QubesResearch.md

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Here are some links to various papers/research projects that somehow relate to Qubes.

### Attacks on Intel TXT

-   [​Attacking Intel® Trusted Execution Technology](http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/bh09dc/Attacking%20Intel%20TXT%20-%20paper.pdf) by Rafal Wojtczuk, Joanna Rutkowska
-   [​ACPI: Design Principles and Concerns](http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/article_acpi.pdf) by Loic Duflot, Olivier Levillain, and Benjamin Morin
-   [​Another Way to Circumvent Intel® Trusted Execution Technology](http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/misc09/Another%20TXT%20Attack.pdf) by Rafal Wojtczuk, Joanna Rutkowska, Alex Tereshkin

### Software attacks coming through devices

-   [​Can you still trust your network card?](http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/csw-trustnetworkcard.pdf) by Loïc Duflot, Yves-Alexis Perez and others
-   [​Remotely Attacking Network Cards (or why we do need VT-d and TXT)](http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2010/04/remotely-attacking-network-cards-or-why.html) by Joanna Rutkowska
-   [​On Formally Verified Microkernels (and on attacking them)](http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2010/05/on-formally-verified-microkernels-and.html) by Joanna Rutkowska

### Application-level security

-   [​Virtics: A System for Privilege Separation of Legacy Desktop Applications](http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Virtics) by Matt Piotrowski
    (We plan to implement some ideas from Matt's thesis in Qubes very soon -- stay tuned for details)