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Aurora: Providing Trusted System Services for Enclaves On an Untrusted System

Cryptography and Security 2021-03-01 v1

Abstract

Intel SGX provisions shielded executions for security-sensitive computation, but lacks support for trusted system services (TSS), such as clock, network and filesystem. This makes \textit{enclaves} vulnerable to Iago attacks~\cite{DBLP:conf/asplos/CheckowayS13} in the face of a powerful malicious system. To mitigate this problem, we present Aurora, a novel architecture that provides TSSes via a secure channel between enclaves and devices on top of an untrusted system, and implement two types of TSSes, i.e. clock and end-to-end network. We evaluate our solution by porting SQLite and OpenSSL into Aurora, experimental results show that SQLite benefits from a \textit{microsecond} accuracy trusted clock and OpenSSL gains end-to-end secure network with about 1ms overhead.

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@article{arxiv.1802.03530,
  title  = {Aurora: Providing Trusted System Services for Enclaves On an Untrusted System},
  author = {Hongliang Liang and Mingyu Li and Qiong Zhang and Yue Yu and Lin Jiang and Yixiu Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03530},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Trusted Computing, Intel SGX, SMM