[tor-talk] PrivateCore Demonstrates Industry’s First PRISM-Proof Tor Server in Public Cloud

[Michael Wolf]

On 10/27/2013 6:09 PM, Pokokohua wrote:
> Saw this ad/news item on another list
> 
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> PrivateCore Demonstrates Industry’s First PRISM-Proof Tor Server in Public Cloud
> 
> ...
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> “The NSA PRISM program has raised concerns around the world among
> organizations considering deploying sensitive data in the public
> cloud. This proof of concept shows that data in the public cloud can
> remain under the control of the owner under any circumstance,” said
> Oded Horovitz, CEO of PrivateCore. “Protecting data-in-use has been a
> challenge in security sensitive industries for years, but hardware
> advances such as larger processor caches have enabled PrivateCore to
> develop an innovative platform that shrinks the hypervisor into the
> CPU to secure data even in memory.”
> 

It still runs in a VM on stock x86 hardware... what stops the
NSA/provider from viewing the virtual CPU's state, retrieving the
encryption keys, and decrypting the memory?  "PRISM-Proof" my tail.