Log entries and other error messages can be very useful, but they can also provide information to other parties - sometimes information which you’d prefer they didn’t have. This is particularly true when you are thinking about Confidential Computing: running applications or workloads in environments where you really want to protect the confidentiality and integrity of your application and its data.
Source: Enarx's Blog
Link: https://blog.enarx.dev/confidential-computing-logging-and-debugging/
Enarx's new website continues evolving. We added a Resources section, where users can filter for different resources: articles, blog posts, events, meetings, podcasts, and releases. The homepage now highlights Docs, Resources, GitHub, Meetings, Events, and Chat. The documentation has been updated and there were various fixes. Next steps include implementing search and developing a better deployment workflow.
The Enarx project received 10 Outreachy applicants, of which 9 were able to successfully complete the first task this past month. Looking at the work developed by these 9 applicants, we are considering 3 strong candidates for an internship. The WebAssembly tutorials developed by these applicants are available at:
https://github.com/enarx/outreachy
Mike and Nick discussed several upcoming events:
We have our first release of Enarx, and a new look for the website. This first release, version 0.1.1, is codenamed Alamo, and provides an easy way in to using Enarx. As always, it’s completely open source: you can look at every single line of our code. It doesn’t provide a full feature set, but what it does do is allow you, for the first time, to write an application, compile it to WebAssembly, and then run it.
Source: Alice, Eve and Bob – a security blog
Link: https://aliceevebob.com/2021/11/02/enarx-first-release/
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, along with the Confidential Computing Consortium today released findings from a market study by Everest Group which shows the Confidential Computing market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 90%-95% to reach US$ 54 billion in 2026.
Source: Confidential Computing Consortium
This week, the Enarx project has finally reached a huge milestone: its first release, version 0.1.0, called Alamo – a reference to the Alamo fortress in Santo Antonio, Texas, and a tribute to Enarx's initial code base first announced in Texas.
Source: Enarx's Blog
Nick introduced Enarx's new website with a focus on documentation.
The website uses Docusaurus with support for markdown, versioning, and i18n. It provides a single-page application, leveraging the full power of React:
Nick gave an update on the Outreachy program. After a brief introduction to Confidential Computing and Enarx, the focus has been on understanding WebAssembly and building the first demos. Applicants developed some examples of running WebAssembly "inside" the browser and "outside." The reason is because when starting out with WebAssembly, it's not obvious that you can have it run standalone. Most examples (in the Internet) in fact target the browser. There are also examples of embedding into other programming languages. Some applicants had to redo their work, so that took some time.
https://github.com/enarx/outreach/issues/15
Rolling CFP till 2021-December-31. Let's create a proposal in October/November.
https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/6e04faab-fd38-4df4-b2a3-2e2780b7c24b
We welcomed our first Outreachy applicants. Kira and Mandeep were on the call and shared more about themselves
https://github.com/enarx/outreach/issues/15
Penglin was also on the Outreach call and introduced himself to Ben and Shaun for the first time.
Rolling CFP till 2021-December-31. Let's create a proposal in October/November.
https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/6e04faab-fd38-4df4-b2a3-2e2780b7c24b
As the Enarx project is getting ready for its first release, we are focused on enhancing our documentation and building demos. In the near future, we want to develop a Confidential Computing Fellowship program to help grow our community.
Source: Enarx's Blog
Link: https://enarx.ghost.io/confidential-computing-fellowship/
We're pleased to announce that Profian has joined the Confidential Computing Consortium, a Linux Foundation community dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of Confidential Computing. Profian believes that working together with the Linux Foundation and other organizations to make Confidential Computing accessible, well understood, and built in a standardized way is not only important, but key to bringing cryptographic proof and verifiable trust to general computing. By joining the Confidential Computing Consortium, it reaffirms its commitment to advance this technology that will have a major impact across all industries.
Source: Profian's Blog
Link: https://blog.profian.com/profian-joins-confidential-computing-consortium/
We are immensely proud and excited to announce the launch of Profian, a start-up company to create Confidential Computing products and services based on the Enarx project (https://enarx.dev).
Source: Profian's Blog