sgx-perf
Nico Weichbrodt, Pierre-Louis Aublin, Rüdiger Kapitza · 2018
Novel trusted execution technologies such as Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) are considered a cure to many security risks in clouds. This is achieved by offering trusted execution contexts, so called enclaves, that enable confidentiality and integrity protection of code and data even from privileged software and physical attacks. To utilise this new abstraction, Intel offers a dedicated Software Development Kit (SDK). While it is already used to build numerous applications, understanding the performance implications of SGX and the offered programming support is still in its infancy. This inevitably leads to time-consuming trial-and-error testing and poses the risk of poor performance.