Intel Corporation

Pradeep M Pappachan

Reshma Lal

Siddhartha Chhabra

Luis S Kida

Bin Xing

Soham Jayesh Desai

Sujoy Sen

Selvakumar Panneer

Steven Bernard McGowan

Robert O Sharp

Abhishek Basak

Krystof C Zmudzinski

Alpa Narendra Trivedi

Salessawi Ferede Yitbarek

Vincent R Scarlata

Lawrence A Booth

Gideon Gerzon

Anna Trikalinou

Brent D Thomas

Vedvyas Shanbhogue

Utkarsh Y Kakaiya

Victoria C Moore

Baruch Chaikin

Kumar Narasimhan Dwarakanath

Rakesh Avichal Ughreja

Ravi L Sahita

Akshay Ramesh Kadam

David M Lee

Kar Leong Wong

Reouven Elbaz

Erdem Aktas

Adeel A Aslam

Sudha Krishnakumar

Nanda Kumar Unnikrishnan

Ned M Smith

Rajesh Poornachandran

Rajesh M Sankaran

Prashant Dewan

Alex Nayshtut

Omer Ben-Shalom

Micah James Sheller

William A Stevens, Jr

Alpa T Narendra Trivedi

Rupin H Vakharwala

Joseph J Grecco

Mark Shanahan

David Hines

Gaurav Kumar

Mukesh Gangadhar Bhavani Venkatesan

An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: provide a remote GPU middleware layer to act as a proxy for an application stack on a client platform that is separate from the remote server platform, wherein the remote GPU middleware layer comprises is to expose an abstraction of the remote GPU to userspace components of a remote GPU stack, the userspace components running on the client machine; communicate with a kernel mode driver of the one or more processors to cause the host memory to be allocated for data structures used to communicate commands between the client and the remote GPU; and invoke the kernel mode driver to submit a workload generated by the application stack, the workload submitted for processing by the remote GPU using the data structures allocated in the host memory.

Disaggregated computing for distributed confidential computing environment

Technologies for secure I/O data transfer with an accelerator device include a computing device having a processor and an accelerator. The processor establishes a trusted execution environment. The trusted execution environment may generate an authentication tag based on a memory-mapped I/O transaction, write the authentication tag to a register of the accelerator, and dispatch the transaction to the accelerator. The accelerator performs a cryptographic operation associated with the transaction, generates an authentication tag based on the transaction, and compares the generated authentication tag to the authentication tag received from the trusted execution environment. The accelerator device may initialize an authentication tag in response to a command from the trusted execution environment, transfer data between host memory and accelerator memory, perform a cryptographic operation in response to transferring the data, and update the authentication tag in response to transferrin the data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Technologies for secure I/O with accelerator devices

A computing platform is disclosed. The computing platform includes a first computer system comprising a first graphics processing unit (GPU), a network coupled to the first computer system and a second computer system, coupled to the first computer system via the network, comprising a second GPU, wherein the first and second computer system are configured to perform distributed processing of graphics workloads between the first GPU and the second GPU.

Dynamic resource management mechanism

Embodiments are directed to trusted local memory management in a virtualized GPU. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a trusted execution environment (TEE); a GPU including a trusted agent; and a memory, the memory including GPU local memory, the trusted agent to ensure proper allocation/deallocation of the local memory and verify translations between graphics physical addresses (PAs) and PAs for the apparatus, wherein the local memory is partitioned into protection regions including a protected region and an unprotected region, and wherein the protected region to store a memory permission table maintained by the trusted agent, the memory permission table to include any virtual function assigned to a trusted domain, a per process graphics translation table to translate between graphics virtual address (VA) to graphics guest PA (GPA), and a local memory translation table to translate between graphics GPAs and PAs for the local memory.

Trusted local memory management in a virtualized GPU

Methods, apparatuses and system provide for technology that interleaves a plurality of verification commands with a plurality of copy commands in a command buffer, wherein each copy command includes a message authentication code (MAC) derived from a master session key, wherein one or more of the plurality of verification commands corresponds to a copy command in the plurality of copy commands, and wherein a verification command at an end of the command buffer corresponds to contents of the command buffer. The technology may also add a MAC generation command to the command buffer, wherein the MAC generation command references an address of a compute result.

Graphics security with synergistic encryption, content-based and resource management technology

Embodiments are directed to providing integrity-protected command buffer execution. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a computer-readable memory comprising one or more command buffers and a processing device communicatively coupled to the computer-readable memory to read, from a command buffer of the computer-readable memory, a first command received from a host device, the first command executable by one or more processing elements on the processing device, the first command comprising an instruction and associated parameter data, compute a first authentication tag using a cryptographic key associated with the host device, the instruction and at least a portion of the parameter data, and authenticate the first command by comparing the first authentication tag with a second authentication tag computed by the host device and associated with the command.

Integrity protected command buffer execution

An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) to: provide a virtual GPU monitor (VGM) to interface over a network with a middleware layer of a client platform, the VGM to interface with the middleware layer using a message passing interface; configure and expose, by the VGM, virtual functions (VFs) of the GPU to the middleware layer of the client platform; intercept, by the VGM, request messages directed to the GPU from the middleware layer, the request messages corresponding to VFs of the GPU to be utilized by the client platform; and generate, by the VGM, a response to the request messages for the middleware client.

An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to facilitate receiving a manifest corresponding to graph nodes representing regions of memory of a remote client machine, the graph nodes corresponding to a command buffer and to associated data structures and kernels of the command buffer used to initialize a hardware accelerator and execute the kernels, and the manifest indicating a destination memory location of each of the graph nodes and dependencies of each of the graph nodes; identifying, based on the manifest, the command buffer and the associated data structures to copy to the host memory; identifying, based on the manifest, the kernels to copy to local memory of the hardware accelerator; and patching addresses in the command buffer copied to the host memory with updated addresses of corresponding locations in the host memory.

Embodiments are directed to protection of communications between a trusted execution environment and a hardware accelerator utilizing enhanced end-to-end encryption and inter-context security. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors having one or more trusted execution environments (TEEs) including a first TEE to include a first trusted application; an interface with a hardware accelerator, the hardware accelerator including trusted embedded software or firmware; and a computer memory to store an untrusted kernel mode driver for the hardware accelerator, the one or more processors to establish an encrypted tunnel between the first trusted application in the first TEE and the trusted software or firmware, generate a call for a first command from the first trusted application, generate an integrity tag for the first command, and transfer command parameters for the first command and the integrity tag to the kernel mode driver to generate the first command.

Protection of communications between trusted execution environment and hardware accelerator utilizing enhanced end-to-end encryption and inter-context security

Technologies for secure device configuration and management include a computing device having an I/O device. A trusted agent of the computing device is trusted by a virtual machine monitor of the computing device. The trusted agent securely commands the I/O device to enter a trusted I/O mode, securely commands the I/O device to set a global lock on configuration registers, receives configuration data from the I/O device, and provides the configuration data to a trusted execution environment. In the trusted I/O mode, the I/O device rejects a configuration command if a configuration register associated with the configuration command is locked and the configuration command is not received from the trusted agent. The trusted agent may provide attestation information to the trusted execution environment. The trusted execution environment may verify the configuration data and the attestation information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Technologies for secure device configuration and management

Technologies for secure I/O data transfer include a computing device having a processor and an accelerator. Each of the processor and the accelerator includes a memory encryption engine. The computing device configures both memory encryption engines with a shared encryption key and transfers encrypted data from a source component to a destination component via an I/O link. The source may be processor and the destination may be the accelerator or vice versa. The computing device may perform a cryptographic operation with one of the memory encryption engines and bypass the other memory encryption engine. The computing device may read encrypted data from a memory of the source, bypass the source memory encryption engine, and transfer the encrypted data to the destination. The destination may receive encrypted data, bypass the destination memory encryption engine, and store the encrypted data in a memory of the destination. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Technologies for secure I/O with memory encryption engines

Technologies for trusted I/O include a computing device having a hardware cryptographic agent, a cryptographic engine, and an I/O controller. The hardware cryptographic agent intercepts a message from the I/O controller and identifies boundaries of the message. The message may include multiple DMA transactions, and the start of message is the start of the first DMA transaction. The cryptographic engine encrypts the message and stores the encrypted data in a memory buffer. The cryptographic engine may skip and not encrypt header data starting at the start of message or may read a value from the header to determine the skip length. In some embodiments, the cryptographic agent and the cryptographic engine may be an inline cryptographic engine. In some embodiments, the cryptographic agent may be a channel identifier filter, and the cryptographic engine may be processor-based. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Technologies for trusted I/O protection of I/O data with header information

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Pradeep M Pappachan