Google Inc.

Chong Cai

Uday R Savagaonkar

Keith Moyer

Matthew Gingell

Sergey Karamov

Anna Sapek

Peter Gonda

Alexander Thomas Cope

A uniform enclave interface is provided for creating and operating enclaves across multiple different types of backends and system configurations. For instance, an enclave manager may be created in an untrusted environment of a host computing device. The enclave manager may include instructions for creating one or more enclaves. An enclave may be generated in memory of the host computing device using the enclave manager. One or more enclave clients of the enclave may be generated by the enclave manager such that the enclave clients configured to provide one or more entry points into the enclave. One or more trusted application instances may be created in the enclave.

Uniform enclave interface

A fork support is provided for duplicating an application running inside an enclave entity. In this regard, a request to duplicate an application running inside a first enclave may be received by one or more processors of a host computing device of the first enclave. A snapshot of the first enclave including the application may be generated. The snapshot may be encrypted with a snapshot key and copied to untrusted memory of the host. A second enclave may be generated. The snapshot key may be sent from the first enclave to the second enclave through a secure communication channel. The encrypted snapshot may be copied from the untrusted memory of the host into the second enclave. The encrypted snapshot may be decrypted inside the second enclave with the snapshot key.

Enclave fork support

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