Shanwei Cen (@shnwc), Dan Middleton (@dcmiddle) We’re excited to announce some recent attestation news. One of the hallmarks of confidential computing is the ability to build trusted communication with an application running in a hardware-based trusted execution environment. To make attestation easily accessible it can be incorporated into common protocols. That way developers don’t need…
The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) was present at the 25th edition of Black Hat USA and the 30th edition of DEF CON. At Intel's booth for Black Hat, there was a big effort towards bringing awareness to Confidential Computing, including the distribution of outreach material from the Confidential Computing Consortium, as well as sessions from Anjuna ("Confidential Computing…
July 7, 2022 To Whom It May Concern: Please consider the following submission to the Request for Information on Advancing Privacy-Enhancing Technologies from the Confidential Computing Consortium. The Confidential Computing Consortium (https://confidentialcomputing.io) is a Linux Foundation project “to accelerate the adoption of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies and standards” and has a diverse membership of…
The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) was one of the 10 communities selected to be part of Roadsec, LATAM's largest hacker conference. Over 5000 participants were present at this in-person conference held in Sao Paulo. Roadsec started as meetups about cyber-security that were organized across different cities (thus the name Roadsec, as speakers were always on the…
Check out what the CCC Projects have been up to! Gramine Gramine project (formerly known as Graphene) will release a new stable version v1.2 in upcoming weeks. Gramine is a library OS that enables protecting sensitive workloads with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX). Gramine runs unmodified Linux applications on Intel® SGX out of the…
Check out what the CCC Projects have been up to! Gramine Following the first production-ready release “v1.0”, The Gramine Project is releasing “v1.1” in upcoming weeks. One highlight of this release is stability improvements for Golang and Rust workloads. Another prominent feature of the release is support for the musl C standard library – now…
We are just finishing the second year of the Confidential Computing Consortium, and it is time once again to look back on what the members have accomplished together. Membership & Project Growth All of our meetings start with the reminder that all members are welcome and all projects are welcome. It have been this way…
The first year of the Confidential Computing Consortium is coming to a close and it is an important time to reflect on what we’ve done and where we’re going as we look ahead to our next year. I want to start from the perspective of ‘why’ the Consortium. Companies create non-profits like the Consortium in the broad open…
The Confidential Computing Consortium is a community focused on open source licensed projects securing data in use and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing through open collaboration. The Consortium announced its intentions in August 2019, and has been heads down laying the foundations for open collaboration between the parties involved in confidential computing and creating…
