Yesterday the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) announced a raft of new members, including firms involved in blockchain such as R3, Anqlave, IoTeX and Accenture. CCC is a Linux Foundation project that launched last year and aims to create a community around confidential computing. Its founding members include Alibaba, Arm, Google, Huawei and Intel.
“In the past five months, we’ve added ten new members including a preeminent consultancy, a leading semiconductor manufacturer (AMD), and a pioneer in graphics processing (NVIDIA),” said Stephen Walli, Governing Board Chair, Confidential Computing Consortium. “This is a brilliant group of innovative companies that has come together to solve one of the key challenges in information security; protecting applications and data while in use.”
At the core of confidential computing is Trusted Execution Environments (TEE). This is a segregated area or enclave within a computer processor, designed to avoid snooping by rogue applications running on the machine. Intel has its SGX technology for TEE.
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