Secure Processors Part II: Intel Sgx Security Analysis and Mit Sanctum Architecture (Foundations and Trends(r) in Electronic Design Automation) - Softcover

Costan, Victor; Lebedev, Ilia; Devadas, Srinivas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1680833022 ISBN 13: 9781680833027

Publisher: Now Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

This manuscript is the second in a two part survey and analysis of the state of the art in secure processor systems, with a specific focus on remote software attestation and software isolation. The first part established the taxonomy and prerequisite concepts relevant to an examination of the state of the art in trusted remote computation: attested software isolation containers (enclaves). This second part extends Part I's description of Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), an available and documented enclave-capable system, with a rigorous security analysis of SGX as a system for trusted remote computation. This part documents the authors' concerns over the shortcomings of SGX as a secure system and introduces the MIT Sanctum processor developed by the authors: a system designed to offer stronger security guarantees, lend itself better to analysis and formal verification, and offer a more straightforward and complete threat model than the Intel system, all with an equivalent programming model. This two part work advocates a principled, transparent, and wellscrutinized approach to system design, and argues that practical guarantees of privacy and integrity for remote computation are achievable at a reasonable design cost and performance overhead.

Edition details

• Publisher: Now Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1680833022
• ISBN 13: 9781680833027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128