2024-08-15 –, East Balcony (capacity 80)
Confidential Computing is an emerging set of technologies that are coming to the Linux Platform and Cloud providers with the availability of Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP and other similar technologies. In this primer, you'll learn more about WHAT Confidential Computing is, WHY is it important, and HOW the upstream development is going for what is a lot more than just hardware-enablement, but involves collaboration of an entire stack from the Hardware Root-of-Trust up towards Remote Attestation. If you would like to learn about concepts such as FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption), SMPC (Secure Multi Party Computation), and TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) as well as SVSMs (Secure Virtual Service Machines), vTPMs (virtual Trusted Platform Modules), UKI (Unified Kernel Image) and how this letter soup makes any sense together for Confidential Computing, this session is for you! We will also talk briefly about communities, how to engage, and industry bodies such as the Confidential Computing Consortium (A Linux Foundation project) and their roles in the ecosystem.
Yash is a Principal Software Engineer in the Virtualization group at Red Hat. He is currently working as a Product Owner, leading the efforts to productize Confidential Computing technologies related to virtual machines, containers and workloads at Red Hat. Yash is also a member of the Technical Advisory Council (TAC) at the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), which is a Linux Foundation community focused on projects securing data in use and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing through open collaboration.
Engineering background mostly in Trusted Computing, Crypto and Security development, managing Open-Source engineering teams since 2011, currently responsible for KVM Userspace in RHEL Platform Virtualization Team.