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From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 06:03:35PM -0400, Don Porter wrote:
>On 5/26/20 4:27 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>I'm really worried about the disconnect between how you view the current
>>state of Graphene (and the industry) vs Intel and the various cloud
>>providers.
>>
>>You keep suggesting that its just past the academic research state,
>>while Intel and the big cloud providers are already pushing it to
>>external customers.? Every one of those cloud providers has a preview/GA
>>secure enclave offering.
>>
>
>I wonder if you are conflating Graphene with SGX?  I understand that 
>many cloud vendors are offering SGX in preview/GA, but there are other 
>frameworks to build these offerings on, such as Intel's SGX SDK or 
>Haven.  It would be news to me if every major cloud vendor were 
>putting Graphene in production.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to suggest that all cloud vendors are pushing
Graphene, but rather than SGX enabled platforms became a commodity
product, users will end up using Graphene-like applications.

Let me provide an example:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/protecting-go-language-applications-with-the-graphene-library-os-on-intel%C2%AE-sgx%C2%AE-secured-alibaba-cloud_594889
- a "practical" guide on how to run Graphene in production environment
   on one of the big cloud vendor platforms. 

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha