2024‐09‐25‐CFCC‐Minutes

Certifier Framework Monthly Meeting

Date: Wed, Sep, 25, 2024, Time: 6-7 am PST

Attendees

• Community: Aditya Gurajada, John Manferdelli, Chris Ramming
• Broadcom: Ye Li, Rado Gerganov
• Samsung: Bokdeuk Jeong
• Others: Ashish Pandey, Pari Patel (Univ of Missouri)
• Data Village: Arne Goeteyn,
• Jacob Lagerros (London, Open-Source Silicon computing, startup founder)

Agenda

• Aditya: #250: Follow-up with John to push the intern project proposal further. Started email thread with John

• Team: We went thru a quick scan of open issues and did a bit of updates / scrubbing.

Pending items from past backlog list

• Ye - investigate and come-up with a recommendation for a static analysis tool to be implemented in our repo

• Rado -- investigate and come-up with a recommendation for a dynamic analysis tool to be implemented in our repo

• Aditya -- once the tools / processes are identified, will coordinate with Ye & Rado to implement the dev/Ci-processes required.

• Aditya -- follow-up on code-level cleanup items for Ubuntu-Linux, sev-simulator changes

• Aditya will take John's recent writeup on Quantum safe crypto algorithms and update Wiki. Work w/ John to finalize.

Status Updates

• (Chris) CCC-Board meeting: Activities to define new marketing strategy / public awarenes for CC.

  • Exploring couple of new use-cases; ML, s/w supply chain integrity [etc.]

• (John) 3+John (MS, Cornell, and another person) started company to work with German Acad of Sciences, to study use-cases of CC.

  • Extend use-cases to small devices for cars, factory floor -- Some work may come into CFCC
  • Supporting small p/fs (e.g., Samsung's client for ARM). Library for policy-control on APIs.

• 9/11/2024: Aditya & Ashish had a brainstorming session on getting MU team started on CFCC.

• Ye investigated static analysis tooling. Need resolution for issue #251. Need input from Keystone folks. Aditya to connect Keystone folks & Ye to drive this further.

  • (9/25/2024): Ye said he will try to charge-ahead w/local builds to overcome Keystone build issues. Change is not big; but would be better if it's verified by UCB Keystone folks.

  • (Aditya) Pushed off email to UCB Keystone owners asking for engineer to work with Ye on issue #251

  • 9/25/2024: Alex from UCB is trying to reach Dayeol Lee.

• Rado will try to push on integrating sanitizers into CFCC builds... back-burner work.

• Ashish/Pari: Went thru CFCC framework & code, and blogs. Setup done on personal machine.

  • Some issues with running sample apps - Will reach out to issues.
    • Plan is to modify CFCC to execute scientific workflows in Cloud env, with secure enclaves. Secure pipelines of workflows in cloud envs.

Action Items

• Ashish: Put-up a Discussion note explaining arch description of s/w components and their plan on how-to integrate with CFCC.