2024‐08‐28‐CFCC‐Minutes

Certifier Framework Monthly Meeting

Date: Wed, Aug, 28, 2024, Time: 6-7 am PST

Attendees

• Community: John Manferdelli (in closed door meetings back East), Chris Ramming, Aditya Gurajada
• Broadcom: Ye Li Rado Gerganov
• Samsung: Bokdeuk Jeong
• Others: Ashish Pandey (Univ of Missouri)

Agenda

• John / Chris: Updates on meetings with Prof. Calyam

Pending items from past backlog list

• PR #246 is assigned to Ye & John. Please resolve Resolved and committed on 7/24/2024.
• 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 & John met with Prof. Calyam. Gave feedback on their proposal to NSF. Ashish is revising based on feedback, and to coordinate w/CFCC core members if needed.
• 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.
• Chris: CCC board meeting today. Will need some collaboration with CCC and MPC (Multi-Party computation) alliance. Chris to evangelize this in board meeting, and get some discussion going on this topic.
• Ashish: Going thru CFCC framework & code, and blogs. Started to do setup on personal machine. Will reach out if there are install / setup 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

• Aditya: #250: Follow-up with John to push the intern project proposal further. Started email thread with John ...
• Ashish: Review:
  • Simple App Readme
  • Nuts-and-bolts of a real-life appln
  • Put-up a Discussion note explaining arch description of s/w components and their plan on how-to integrate with CFCC.
• (Aditya) Pushed off email to UCB Keystone owners asking for engineer to work with Ye on issue #251