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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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With the next major release of the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor expected this August, the project's developers have turned their attention to a new issue: security.
Over the last few months, a group of the project's open source developers have begun work on a "security enhanced" version of Xen called XenSE that is similar in concept to the Security Enhanced Linux project backed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
"Xen already has a lot of important security features today, but the XenSE work is intended to take this to the next level, making use of the various hardware features that will be appearing on future processors to move us closer to true trustworthy computing," said Xen project leader Ian Pratt, via e-mail.
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