Ruixiang Jiang

Projects

Fall 2023: Supported Firecracker virtualization for Asterinas platform

Firecracker is an open-source virtualization technology developed by Amazon, tailored for the modern cloud computing landscape. At the same time, Asterinas is a secure, fast, and general-purpose OS kernel, written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible API. The purpose is to support Firecracker virtualization for the Asterinas platform.

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Spring 2024: Implemented IMA for Asterinas TDX version

Integrity measurement and attestation mechanisms play a pivotal role in ensuring the trustworthiness and security of computing systems. It explores the application of such mechanisms, focusing on the case study of Asterinas, a representative system. Through a comprehensive analysis of Asterinas, this study elucidates the intricacies of implementing and leveraging integrity measurement and attestation support. Furthermore, it discusses the challenges and advancements in this domain. The insights derived from Asterinas serve as valuable guidelines for enhancing integrity assurance in various computing environments.

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Summer 2024: Built benchmarks for UNSAFE-to-FFM automatic transformation

Some Java projects used UNSAFE to deal with problems relative to objects' addresses. However, OpenJDK published FFM API in Java 22, which was potentially able to replace UNSAFE. The purpose is to develop an automatic tool to do the transformation. My work was building benchmarks for such an automatic tool.

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