Abstract: Technologies for trusted I/O attestation and verification include a computing device with a cryptographic engine and one or more I/O controllers. The computing device collects hardware attestation information associated with statically attached hardware I/O components that are associated with a trusted I/O usage protected by the cryptographic engine. The computing device verifies the hardware attestation information and securely enumerates one or more dynamically attached hardware components in response to verification. The computing device collects software attestation information for trusted software components loaded during secure enumeration. The computing device verifies the software attestation information. The computing device may collect firmware attestation information for firmware loaded in the I/O controllers and verify the firmware attestation information.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) compensation based on protected content are described. In an embodiment, secure memory stores data that is only accessible by trusted logic. Display controller logic circuitry updates pixel values to be stored in the secure memory based on a plurality of frames. The display controller logic circuitry allows access by untrusted software to the updated pixel values after a first number of updates to the pixel values stored in the secure memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Techniques for encrypting data using a key generated by a physical unclonable function (PUF) are described. An apparatus according to the present disclosure may include decoder circuitry to decode an instruction and generate a decoded instruction. The decoded instruction includes operands and an opcode. The opcode indicates that execution circuitry is to encrypt data using a key generated by a PUF. The apparatus may further include execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to encrypt the data to generate encrypted data using the key generated by the PUF.

Abstract: Techniques for encrypting data using a key generated by a physical unclonable function (PUF) are described. An apparatus according to the present disclosure may include decoder circuitry to decode an instruction and generate a decoded instruction. The decoded instruction includes operands and an opcode. The opcode indicates that execution circuitry is to encrypt data using a key generated by a PUF. The apparatus may further include execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to encrypt the data to generate encrypted data using the key generated by the PUF.

Abstract: Implementations describe providing isolation in virtualized systems using trust domains. In one implementation, a processing device includes a memory ownership table (MOT) that is access-controlled against software access. The processing device further includes a processing core to execute a trust domain resource manager (TDRM) to manage a trust domain (TD), maintain a trust domain control structure (TDCS) for managing global metadata for each TD, maintain an execution state of the TD in at least one trust domain thread control structure (TD-TCS) that is access-controlled against software accesses, and reference the MOT to obtain at least one key identifier (key ID) corresponding to an encryption key assigned to the TD, the key ID to allow the processing device to decrypt memory pages assigned to the TD responsive to the processing device executing in the context of the TD, the memory pages assigned to the TD encrypted with the encryption key.

Abstract: System and techniques for multi-tenant cryptographic memory isolation are described herein. A multiple key total memory encryption (MKTME) circuitry may receive a read request for encrypted memory. Here, the read request may include an encrypted memory address that itself includes a sequence of keyid bits and physical address bits. The MKTME circuitry may retrieve a keyid-nonce from a key table using the keyid bits. The MKTME circuitry may construct a tweak from the keyid-nonce, the keyid bits, and the physical address bits. The MKTME circuitry may then decrypt data specified by the read request using the tweak and a common key.

Abstract: A protected link between a first computing device and a second computing device is set up, wherein communication over the protected link is to comply with a communication protocol that allows packets to be reordered during transit. A plurality of packets are generated according to a packet format that ensures the plurality of packets will not be reordered during transmission over the protected link, the plurality of packets comprising a first packet and a second packet. Data of the plurality of packets are encrypted for transmission over the protected link, wherein data of the first packet is encrypted based on the cryptographic key and a first value of a counter and data of the second packet is encrypted based on the cryptographic key and a second value of the counter.

Abstract: A processor executes an untrusted VMM that manages execution of a guest workload. The processor also populates an entry in a memory ownership table for the guest workload. The memory ownership table is indexed by an original hardware physical address, the entry comprises an expected guest address that corresponds to the original hardware physical address, and the entry is encrypted with a key domain key. In response to receiving a request from the guest workload to access memory using a requested guest address, the processor (a) obtains, from the untrusted VMM, a hardware physical address that corresponds to the requested guest address; (b) uses that physical address as an index to find an entry in the memory ownership table; and (c) verifies whether the expected guest address from the found entry matches the requested guest address. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus including a processor comprising at least one core to execute instructions of a plurality of virtual machines and a virtual machine monitor; and a cryptographic engine comprising circuitry to protect data associated with the plurality of virtual machines through use of a plurality of private keys and an accessor key, wherein each of the plurality of private keys are to protect a respective virtual machine and the accessor key is to protect management structures of the plurality of virtual machines; and wherein the processor is to provide, to the virtual machine monitor, direct read access to the management structures of the plurality of virtual machines through the accessor key and indirect write access to the management structures of the plurality of virtual machines through a secure software module.

Abstract: Technologies for trusted I/O include a computing device having a processor, a channel identifier filter, and an I/O controller. The I/O controller may generate an I/O transaction that includes a channel identifier and a memory address. The channel identifier filter verifies that the memory address of the I/O transaction is within a processor reserved memory region associated with the channel identifier. The processor reserved memory region is not accessible to software executed by the computing device. The processor encrypts I/O data at the memory address in response to invocation of a processor feature and copies the encrypted data to a memory buffer outside of the processor reserved memory region. The processor may securely clean the processor reserved memory region before encrypting and copying the data. The processor may wrap and unwrap programming information for the channel identifier filter. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A system may use memory tagging for side-channel defense, memory safety, and sandboxing to reduce the likelihood of successful attacks. The system may include memory tagging circuitry to address existing and potential hardware and software architectures security vulnerabilities. The memory tagging circuitry may prevent memory pointers from being overwritten, prevent memory pointer manipulation (e.g., by adding values), and increase the granularity of memory tagging to include byte-level tagging in cache. The memory tagging circuitry may sandbox untrusted code by tagging portions of memory to indicate when the tagged portions of memory include contain a protected pointer. The memory tagging circuitry provides security features while enabling CPUs to continue using and benefiting from speculatively performing operations.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a channel filter and a security processor. The security processor is to: receive a plurality of device access control policies from a protected non-volatile storage of a platform; determine whether the plurality of device access control policies are verified; program the channel filter with a plurality of filter entries each associated with one of the plurality of device access control policies based on the determination; and remove a security attribute of the security processor from a policy register of the channel filter, to lock the channel filter for a boot cycle of the platform. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Technologies for secure I/O data transfer include a computing device having a processor and an accelerator. Each of the processor and the accelerator includes a memory encryption engine. The computing device configures both memory encryption engines with a shared encryption key and transfers encrypted data from a source component to a destination component via an I/O link. The source may be processor and the destination may be the accelerator or vice versa. The computing device may perform a cryptographic operation with one of the memory encryption engines and bypass the other memory encryption engine. The computing device may read encrypted data from a memory of the source, bypass the source memory encryption engine, and transfer the encrypted data to the destination. The destination may receive encrypted data, bypass the destination memory encryption engine, and store the encrypted data in a memory of the destination. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Technologies for secure I/O include a compute device, which further includes a processor, a memory, a trusted execution environment (TEE), one or more input/output (I/O) devices, and an I/O subsystem. The I/O subsystem includes a device memory access table (DMAT) programmed by the TEE to establish bindings between the TEE and one or more I/O devices that the TEE trusts and a memory ownership table (MOT) programmed by the TEE when a memory page is allocated to the TEE.

Abstract: Techniques for encrypting data using a key generated by a physical unclonable function (PUF) or a virtual PUF key are described.

Abstract: Techniques for memory assisted inline encryption/decryption are described. An example includes an encryption data structure engine to provide a key, data, and a tweak to the encryption/decryption engine, wherein the encryption data structure engine is to: read an index value from an encryption data structure lookup data structure entry using an address, the entry to include the index value and a guest page physical address (GPPA), retrieve, based on the index value, an entry from the encryption data structure, the entry to include a logical block address (LBA) base, a key identifier, and at least one GPPA in a sequence of GPPAs, generate a LBA using a position of the GPPA from the encryption data structure lookup data structure entry in the sequence of GPPAs, and retrieve a key based on the key identifier, wherein the encryption engine to encrypt data using the retrieved key, and the generated LBA.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: an access control circuit to receive a memory transaction directed to a storage, the memory transaction having a requester ID and a key ID; a first memory to store an access control table, the access control table having a plurality of entries each to store a requester ID and at least one key ID; and a cryptographic circuit coupled to the access control circuit, the cryptographic circuit to perform a cryptographic operation on data associated with the memory transaction based at least in part on the key ID. The apparatus may be implemented as an inline engine coupled between the storage and an accelerator, the inline engine to provide decrypted data to the accelerator, the storage to store encrypted data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A processor for supporting secure memory intent is disclosed. The processor of the disclosure includes a memory execution unit to access memory and a processor core coupled to the memory execution unit. The processor core is to receive a request to access a convertible page of the memory. In response to the request, the processor core to determine an intent for the convertible page in view of a page table entry (PTE) corresponding to the convertible page. The intent indicates whether the convertible page is to be accessed as at least one of a secure page or a non-secure page.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and methods for securing data direct I/O (DDIO) for a secure accelerator interface, in accordance with various embodiments. Historically, DDIO has enabled performance advantages that have outweighed its security risks. DDIO circuitry may be configured to secure DDIO data by using encryption circuitry that is manufactured for use in communications with main memory along the direct memory access (DMA) path. DDIO circuitry may be configured to secure DDIO data by using DDIO encryption circuitry manufactured for use by or manufactured within the DDIO circuitry. Enabling encryption and decryption in the DDIO path by the DDIO circuitry has the potential to close a security gap in modem data central processor units (CPUs).

Abstract: Techniques for encrypting data using a key generated by a physical unclonable function (PUF) are described. An apparatus according to the present disclosure may include decoder circuitry to decode an instruction and generate a decoded instruction. The decoded instruction includes operands and an opcode. The opcode indicates that execution circuitry is to encrypt data using a key generated by a PUF. The apparatus may further include execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to encrypt the data to generate encrypted data using the key generated by the PUF.