Dmitrii Kuvaiskii

Gramine (formerly called "Graphene") is a lightweight library OS, designed to run a single Linux application in an isolated environment. Currently, Gramine runs on Linux and Intel SGX enclaves on Linux platforms. With Intel SGX support, Gramine can secure a critical application in a hardware-encrypted memory region and protect the application from a malicious system stack with minimal porting effort ("lift and shift" approach).

Several major events happened to the Gramine project in 2021. Gramine changed its name, moved to a new GitHub repository, and joined Confidential Computing Consortium. The first production-ready release of Gramine -- v1.0 -- was published in October 2021. This talk will discuss all these events, as well as the current status of the project and its future plans.

Graphene is a lightweight library OS, designed to run a single Linux application in an isolated environment. Currently, Graphene runs on Linux and Intel SGX enclaves on Linux platforms. With Intel SGX support, Graphene can secure a critical application in a hardware-encrypted memory region and protect the application from a malicious system stack with minimal porting effort.

This talk will discuss the design, implementation, features, lessons learned, and the current status of the project. The talk will highlight some of the technical challenges of enabling unmodified applications in restricted secure environments such as Intel SGX enclaves.