Zhiqiang Lin

A Survey on Hypervisor-Based Monitoring

2015 · ACM Computing Surveys

When designing computer monitoring systems, one goal has always been to have a complete view of the monitored target and at the same time stealthily protect the monitor itself. One way to achieve this is …

CrossLine: Breaking "Security-by-Crash" based Memory Isolation in AMD SEV

2021

AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) is an emerging security feature of modern AMD processors that allows virtual machines to run with encrypted memory and perform confidential computing even with an untrusted hypervisor. This paper first …

Demystifying Private Transactions and Their Impact in PoW and PoS Ethereum

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In Ethereum, private transactions, a specialized transaction type employed to evade public Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network broadcasting, remain largely unexplored, particularly in the context of the transition from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanisms. To …