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Reinforcing Secure Live Migration through Verifiable State Management

Authors: Giannetsos, Thanassis; Vasileiadis, Stefanos; Schuster, Matthias; Crispo, Bruno;

Reinforcing Secure Live Migration through Verifiable State Management

Abstract

Live migration of applications is a fundamental capability for enabling resilient computing in modern distributed systems. However, extending this functionality to trusted applications (TA) -- executing within Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) -- introduces unique challenges such as secure state preservation, integrity verification, replay and rollback prevention, and mitigation of unauthorized cloning of TAs. We present TALOS, a lightweight framework for verifiable state management and trustworthy application migration. While our implementation is prototyped and evaluated using Intel SGX with the Gramine LibOS and RISC-V Keystone (evidencing the framework's portability across diverse TEEs), its design is agnostic to the underlying TEE architecture. Such agility is a necessity in today's network service mesh (collaborative computing across the continuum) where application workloads must be managed across domain boundaries in a harmonized fashion. TALOS is built around the principle of minimizing trust assumptions: TAs are treated as untrusted until explicitly verified, and the migration process does not rely on a trusted third party. To ensure both the integrity and secure launch of the migrated application, TALOS integrates memory introspection and control-flow graph extraction, enabling robust verification of state continuity and execution flow. Thereby achieving strong security guarantees while maintaining efficiency, making it suitable for decentralized settings.

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FOS: Computer and information sciences, Enclaves, Cryptography and Security, Trusted Execution Environments, Remote Attestation, Secure Migration, Confidential Computing, Cryptography and Security (cs.CR), Zero Trust

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