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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: Proc USENIX Symp Oper Syst Des Implement (OSDI). 2012:61–75.

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Overview of ephemeral channels. Sensitive data flow is shown for both types of channels. Hardware ephemeral channels connect guest system software directly to hardware, while encrypted ephemeral channels connect guest system software to small software proxies on the host or peripheral device. Black boxes represent unencrypted data, white boxes encrypted data.