SECURING RESULTS OF PRIVILEGED COMPUTING OPERATIONS

A formalized set of interfaces (e.g., application programming interfaces (APIs)) is described, that uses a security scheme, such as asymmetric (or symmetric) cryptography, in order to secure the results of privileged operations on systems such as the operating system (OS) kernel and/or the hypervisor. The interface allows a public key to be included into a request to perform a privileged operation on a hypervisor and/or kernel. The kernel and/or hypervisor use the key included in the request to encrypt the results of the privileged operation. In some embodiments, the request itself can also be encrypted, such that any intermediate parties are not able to read the parameters and other information of the request.