Scaling Intel® Software Guard Extensions Applications with Intel® SGX Card

Abstract

Cloud computing revolutionized the way internet-scale services are deployed and scaled. However, general security concerns and protecting business critical data are still major factors holding companies back from moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud. Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) technology provides a hardware enforced trusted execution environment specifically developed to compute on confidential data in untrusted public clouds. To date, Intel SGX is available only on single-socket platforms and its secure memory limited to 128 MB.