Re: [qubes-users] what does qubes do to protect sys-usb?

2017-06-26 Thread Unman
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:02:44AM -0700, pixel fairy wrote: > what does qubes-os do to protect sys-usb from dma or other attacks? > The protection against DMA attacks comes from Qubes' use of Xen - provided you have VT-d Xen will limit the memory available to the device to that of the qube. --

Re: [qubes-users] what does qubes do to protect sys-usb?

2017-06-26 Thread Noor Christensen
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:02:44AM -0700, pixel fairy wrote: > what does qubes-os do to protect sys-usb from dma or other attacks? The main purpose of using a dedicated sys-usb VM (as I have understood it), is that it provides a workflow where you enable USB devices when needed and only for the sp

[qubes-users] what does qubes do to protect sys-usb?

2017-06-26 Thread pixel fairy
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