The idea is to use trusted execution environments to build trust across various cloud-related use cases, including 5G, virtual network functions (VNFs), blockchain and more.
Asylo, an open-source framework and software development kit (SDK) for creating applications that run in trusted execution environments (TEEs), has launched to tackle the complexity involved in running a confidential computing platform for workloads in the cloud and virtual environments.
TEEs provide additional verifiable isolation for sensitive workloads, helping to defend against attacks targeting underlying layers of the cloud stack, including the operating system, hypervisor, drivers and firmware. This is done by creating secure computing islands known as enclaves. Enclaves provide isolation that can better protect use cases that depend on “secrets,” like encryption keys or algorithms. For example, voting systems may have a private key that’s used to sign ballots or encrypt data – a bedrock requirement for the integrity of the system. Enclaves are meant to ensure the continued confidentiality of the key.
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