@misc{SianiparWillemsMeinel2019, author = {Sianipar, Johannes Harungguan and Willems, Christian and Meinel, Christoph}, title = {Virtual machine integrity verification in Crowd-Resourcing Virtual Laboratory}, series = {2018 IEEE 11th Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA)}, journal = {2018 IEEE 11th Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-9133-5}, issn = {2163-2871}, doi = {10.1109/SOCA.2018.00032}, pages = {169 -- 176}, year = {2019}, abstract = {In cloud computing, users are able to use their own operating system (OS) image to run a virtual machine (VM) on a remote host. The virtual machine OS is started by the user using some interfaces provided by a cloud provider in public or private cloud. In peer to peer cloud, the VM is started by the host admin. After the VM is running, the user could get a remote access to the VM to install, configure, and run services. For the security reasons, the user needs to verify the integrity of the running VM, because a malicious host admin could modify the image or even replace the image with a similar image, to be able to get sensitive data from the VM. We propose an approach to verify the integrity of a running VM on a remote host, without using any specific hardware such as Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Our approach is implemented on a Linux platform where the kernel files (vmlinuz and initrd) could be replaced with new files, while the VM is running. kexec is used to reboot the VM with the new kernel files. The new kernel has secret codes that will be used to verify whether the VM was started using the new kernel files. The new kernel is used to further measuring the integrity of the running VM.}, language = {en} } @book{MeinelWillems2013, author = {Meinel, Christoph and Willems, Christian}, title = {openHPI : the MOOC offer at Hasso Plattner Institute}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-264-3}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-67176}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {21}, year = {2013}, abstract = {The new interactive online educational platform openHPI, (https://openHPI.de) from Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), offers freely accessible courses at no charge for all who are interested in subjects in the field of information technology and computer science. Since 2011, "Massive Open Online Courses," called MOOCs for short, have been offered, first at Stanford University and then later at other U.S. elite universities. Following suit, openHPI provides instructional videos on the Internet and further reading material, combined with learning-supportive self-tests, homework and a social discussion forum. Education is further stimulated by the support of a virtual learning community. In contrast to "traditional" lecture platforms, such as the tele-TASK portal (http://www.tele-task.de) where multimedia recorded lectures are available on demand, openHPI offers didactic online courses. The courses have a fixed start date and offer a balanced schedule of six consecutive weeks presented in multimedia and, whenever possible, interactive learning material. Each week, one chapter of the course subject is treated. In addition, a series of learning videos, texts, self-tests and homework exercises are provided to course participants at the beginning of the week. The course offering is combined with a social discussion platform where participants have the opportunity to enter into an exchange with course instructors and fellow participants. Here, for example, they can get answers to questions and discuss the topics in depth. The participants naturally decide themselves about the type and range of their learning activities. They can make personal contributions to the course, for example, in blog posts or tweets, which they can refer to in the forum. In turn, other participants have the chance to comment on, discuss or expand on what has been said. In this way, the learners become the teachers and the subject matter offered to a virtual community is linked to a social learning network.}, language = {en} }