Xen Developer & Design Summit 2018

Qubes is a Xen-based community distribution that designed to provide strong security for desktop computing.
And as a security-oriented distribution, Qubes meets the trend of hardware/software co-designed security system.
This speech will come with the following sub-topics:
1) Overall Design
anatomy of system architecture of Qubes and the key ideas behind it, especially for the latest version 4.0.
2) Virtualization based Security Archtecture
designing philosophy of Qubes from a security perspective, including its unique and novel security features.
3) Potential Acceleration Technologies for Toolstack
especially, our practice of accelerating the Python-based SaltStack.

Reference links:
Qubes: https://www.qubes-os.org/
SaltStack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28software%29