Here are links to various research papers, projects, videos, and blog posts related to Qubes OS.
Secure Software Development
- Security challenges for the Qubes build process by Joanna Rutkowska, May 2016
Towards Trusted Hardware
- Thoughts on the "physically secure" ORWL computer by Joanna Rutkowska, September 2016
- State considered harmful by Joanna Rutkowska, December 2015
- Intel x86 considered harmful by Joanna Rutkowska, October 2015
Intel's Safeguard Extensions
- Thoughts on Intel's upcoming SoftwareGuard Extensions (Part 2) by Joanna Rutkowska, September 2013
- Thoughts on Intel's upcoming SoftwareGuard Extensions (Part 1) by Joanna Rutkowska, August 2013
Attacks on Intel TXT
- Attacking Intel TXT® via SINIT code execution hijacking by Rafal Wojtczuk and Joanna Rutkowska, November 2011
- Another Way to Circumvent Intel® Trusted Execution Technology by Rafal Wojtczuk, Joanna Rutkowska, Alex Tereshkin, December 2009
- ACPI: Design Principles and Concerns by Loic Duflot, Olivier Levillain, and Benjamin Morin, 2009
- Attacking Intel® Trusted Execution Technology by Rafal Wojtczuk and Joanna Rutkowska
Software Attacks Coming Through Devices
- Following the White Rabbit: Software Attacks against Intel® VT-d by Rafal Wojtczuk and Joanna Rutkowska, April 2011
- On Formally Verified Microkernels (and on attacking them) by Joanna Rutkowska, May 2010
- Remotely Attacking Network Cards (or why we do need VT-d and TXT) by Joanna Rutkowska, April 2010
- Can you still trust your network card? by Loïc Duflot, Yves-Alexis Perez and others
Application-level Security
- Virtics: A System for Privilege Separation of Legacy Desktop Applications by Matt Piotrowski, May 2010
Compartmentalization, Isolation, and Separation
- Software compartmentalization vs. physical separation by Joanna Rutkowska, August 2014
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Security and Functionality in a Commodity Hypervisor by Patrick Colp at el., October 2011
The Qubes Architecture
- Qubes virtual mini-summit 2021 by 3mdeb and the Qubes team, August 2021
- Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture by Joanna Rutkowska, January 2018
- Introducing the Next Generation Qubes Core Stack by Joanna Rutkowska, October 2017
- Introducing the Qubes Admin API by Joanna Rutkowska, June 2017
- Qubes OS Architecture Spec v0.3 by Joanna Rutkowska and Rafal Wojtczuk, January 2010