Intel SGX, a new security capability in emerging
\nCPUs, allows user-level application code to execute in hardware isolated
\nenclaves. Enclave memory is isolated from all other
\nsoftware on the system, even from the privileged OS or hypervisor.
\nWhile being a promising hardware-rooted building block,
\nenclaves have severely limited capabilities, such as no native
\naccess to system calls and standard OS abstractions. These OS
\nabstractions are used ubiquitously in real-world applications.
\nIn this paper, we present a new system called PANOPLY which
\nbridges the gap between the SGX-native abstractions and the
\nstandard OS abstractions which feature-rich, commodity Linux
\napplications require. PANOPLY provides a new abstraction called a
\nmicro-container (or a \u201cmicron\u201d), which is a unit of code and data
\nisolated in SGX enclaves. Microns expose the standard POSIX
\nabstractions to application logic, including access to filesystems,
\nnetwork, multi-threading, multi-processing and thread synchronization
\nprimitives. Further, PANOPLY enforces a strong integrity
\nproperty for the inter-enclave interactions, ensuring that the
\nexecution of the application follows the legitimate control and
\ndata-flow even if the OS misbehaves. Thus, commodity Linux
\napplications can enhance security by splitting their application
\nlogic in one or more microns, or by importing micron-libraries,
\nwith little effort. In contrast to previous systems that enable
\ncomparable richness, PANOPLY offers two orders of magnitude
\nlower TCB (about 20 KLOC in total), more than half of which
\nis boiler-plate and can be automatically verified in the future.
\nWe demonstrate how PANOPLY enables much stronger security
\nin 4 real-world applications \u2014 including Tor, OpenSSL, and web
\nservices \u2014 which can base security on hardware-root of trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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