2024‐10‐23‐CFCC‐Minutes

Certifier Framework Monthly Meeting

Date: Wed, Oct, 23, 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)

Short meeting; low attendance. Went thru quick updates of pending backlog and closed early.

Agenda

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

• Team: Quick scan of open issues and did a bit of updates / scrubbing.

Status Updates

• (Bok-deuk): Samsung team is busy working on their own Islet project

  • Finished implementing APIs for providing sealing key. Currently no h/w support.
  • Implemented in s/w using firmware-provided keys running in TEE.
  • Qs. [?] Keys retrieved from external sources; should have any requirements to retrieve keys from local device.

• (John) Gave a talk on CC in Germany. Flew-in late, so could not attend today.

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.

• 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.

Action Items

• (Bokdeuk) Open up a discussion item asking for more info on necessity of using keys provided by local device.

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

• Rado: Retrieve from backups and restore meeting minutes from Aug 28th, 2024; Accidentally deleted by Aditya.