Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run an application, wherein the processor is to: generate, via the application in the TEE, encrypted data, wherein the encrypted data comprises a payload; copy, via the application in the TEE, the encrypted data to a local buffer; interface, using the application in the TEE, with a source network interface controller (NIC) to initiate a copy over a network of the encrypted data from the local buffer to a remote buffer of a remote platform; and communicate, after completing the copy of the network of the encrypted data, at least one message with the remote platform to indicate that the encrypted data is available and to enable the remote platform to verify integrity of the encrypted data.

Abstract: Technologies for secure device configuration and management include a computing device having an I/O device. A trusted agent of the computing device is trusted by a virtual machine monitor of the computing device. The trusted agent securely commands the I/O device to enter a trusted I/O mode, securely commands the I/O device to set a global lock on configuration registers, receives configuration data from the I/O device, and provides the configuration data to a trusted execution environment. In the trusted I/O mode, the I/O device rejects a configuration command if a configuration register associated with the configuration command is locked and the configuration command is not received from the trusted agent. The trusted agent may provide attestation information to the trusted execution environment. The trusted execution environment may verify the configuration data and the attestation information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) to: provide a virtual GPU monitor (VGM) to interface over a network with a middleware layer of a client platform, the VGM to interface with the middleware layer using a message passing interface; configure and expose, by the VGM, virtual functions (VFs) of the GPU to the middleware layer of the client platform; intercept, by the VGM, request messages directed to the GPU from the middleware layer, the request messages corresponding to VFs of the GPU to be utilized by the client platform; and generate, by the VGM, a response to the request messages for the middleware client.

Abstract: Techniques for using integrity check value tripwires for memory safety are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes an instruction decoder to decode one or more instructions to copy a memory region; and execution circuitry coupled to the instruction decoder, the execution circuitry to perform one or more operations corresponding to the one or more instructions, including detecting an integrity check value (ICV) mismatch; determining whether a granule in the memory region represents a tripwire; determining a suppression mode associated with the one or more instructions; and in response to determining that the suppression mode allows copying the tripwire, copying the tripwire.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to facilitate receiving a manifest corresponding to graph nodes representing regions of memory of a remote client machine, the graph nodes corresponding to a command buffer and to associated data structures and kernels of the command buffer used to initialize a hardware accelerator and execute the kernels, and the manifest indicating a destination memory location of each of the graph nodes and dependencies of each of the graph nodes; identifying, based on the manifest, the command buffer and the associated data structures to copy to the host memory; identifying, based on the manifest, the kernels to copy to local memory of the hardware accelerator; and patching addresses in the command buffer copied to the host memory with updated addresses of corresponding locations in the host memory.

Abstract: Technologies for secure device configuration and management include a computing device having an I/O device. A trusted agent of the computing device is trusted by a virtual machine monitor of the computing device. The trusted agent securely commands the I/O device to enter a trusted I/O mode, securely commands the I/O device to set a global lock on configuration registers, receives configuration data from the I/O device, and provides the configuration data to a trusted execution environment. In the trusted I/O mode, the I/O device rejects a configuration command if a configuration register associated with the configuration command is locked and the configuration command is not received from the trusted agent. The trusted agent may provide attestation information to the trusted execution environment. The trusted execution environment may verify the configuration data and the attestation information. 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: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to facilitate receiving a manifest corresponding to graph nodes representing regions of memory of a remote client machine, the graph nodes corresponding to a command buffer and to associated data structures and kernels of the command buffer used to initialize a hardware accelerator and execute the kernels, and the manifest indicating a destination memory location of each of the graph nodes and dependencies of each of the graph nodes; identifying, based on the manifest, the command buffer and the associated data structures to copy to the host memory; identifying, based on the manifest, the kernels to copy to local memory of the hardware accelerator; and patching addresses in the command buffer copied to the host memory with updated addresses of corresponding locations in the host memory.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run an application, wherein the processor is to utilize the application in the TEE to: generate encrypted data of the application; copy the encrypted data to a local shared buffer; interface with a source network interface controller (NIC) to initiate a copy over a network of the encrypted data from the local shared buffer to a remote buffer of a remote platform, wherein the source NIC operates outside of a trust boundary of the TEE; and communicate at least one message with the remote platform to indicate that the encrypted data is available and to enable the remote platform to verify integrity of the encrypted data, wherein the one least one message comprises an authentication tag.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a network interface card (NIC), including packet processing circuitry to determine whether the NIC is to operate according to a first telemetry protection mode to prevent copying of packet data payloads for telemetry or a second telemetry protection mode to enable copying of packet payloads for telemetry.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to facilitate receiving a manifest corresponding to graph nodes representing regions of memory of a remote client machine, the graph nodes corresponding to a command buffer and to associated data structures and kernels of the command buffer used to initialize a hardware accelerator and execute the kernels, and the manifest indicating a destination memory location of each of the graph nodes and dependencies of each of the graph nodes; identifying, based on the manifest, the command buffer and the associated data structures to copy to the host memory; identifying, based on the manifest, the kernels to copy to local memory of the hardware accelerator; and patching addresses in the command buffer copied to the host memory with updated addresses of corresponding locations in the host memory.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: provide a remote GPU middleware layer to act as a proxy for an application stack on a client platform that is separate from the remote server platform, wherein the remote GPU middleware layer comprises is to expose an abstraction of the remote GPU to userspace components of a remote GPU stack, the userspace components running on the client machine; communicate with a kernel mode driver of the one or more processors to cause the host memory to be allocated for data structures used to communicate commands between the client and the remote GPU; and invoke the kernel mode driver to submit a workload generated by the application stack, the workload submitted for processing by the remote GPU using the data structures allocated in the host memory.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run an application, wherein the processor is to: generate, via the application in the TEE, encrypted data, wherein the encrypted data comprises a payload; copy, via the application in the TEE, the encrypted data to a local buffer; interface, using the application in the TEE, with a source network interface controller (NIC) to initiate a copy over a network of the encrypted data from the local buffer to a remote buffer of a remote platform; and communicate, after completing the copy of the network of the encrypted data, at least one message with the remote platform to indicate that the encrypted data is available and to enable the remote platform to verify integrity of the encrypted data.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a programmable integrated circuit (IC) comprising secure device manager (SDM) hardware circuitry to: receive a tenant bitstream of a tenant and a tenant use policy for utilization of the programmable IC via the tenant bitstream, wherein the tenant use policy is cryptographically bound to the tenant bitstream by a cloud service provider (CSP) authorizing entity and signed with a signature of the CSP authorizing entity; in response to successfully verifying the signature, extract the tenant use policy to provide to a policy manager of the programmable IC for verification; in response to the policy manager verifying the tenant bitstream based on the tenant use policy, configure a partial reconfiguration (PR) region of the programmable IC using the tenant bitstream; and associate a slot ID of the PR region with the tenant use policy.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to facilitate receiving a manifest corresponding to graph nodes representing regions of memory of a remote client machine, the graph nodes corresponding to a command buffer and to associated data structures and kernels of the command buffer used to initialize a hardware accelerator and execute the kernels, and the manifest indicating a destination memory location of each of the graph nodes and dependencies of each of the graph nodes; identifying, based on the manifest, the command buffer and the associated data structures to copy to the host memory; identifying, based on the manifest, the kernels to copy to local memory of the hardware accelerator; and patching addresses in the command buffer copied to the host memory with updated addresses of corresponding locations in the host memory.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: provide a remote GPU middleware layer to act as a proxy for an application stack on a client platform separate from the apparatus; communicate, by the remote GPU middleware layer, with a kernel mode driver of the one or more processors to cause the host memory to be allocated for command buffers and data structures received from the client platform for consumption by a command streamer of a remote GPU of the apparatus; and invoke, by the remote GPU middleware layer, the kernel mode driver to submit a workload generated by the application stack, the workload submitted for processing by the remote GPU using the command buffers and the data structures allocated in the host memory as directed by the command streamer.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a source remote direct memory access (RDMA) network interface controller (RNIC); a queue to store a data entry corresponding to an RDMA request between the source RNIC and a sink RNIC; a data buffer to store data for an RDMA transfer corresponding to the RDMA request, the RDMA transfer between the source RNIC and the sink RNIC; and a trusted execution environment (TEE) comprising an authentication tag controller to: initialize a first authentication tag calculated using a first key known between a source consumer generating the RDMA request and the source RNIC; associate the first authentication tag with the data entry as integrity verification; initialize a second authentication tag calculated using a second key; and associate the second authentication tag with the data buffer as integrity verification for the data buffer.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to facilitate receiving a manifest corresponding to graph nodes representing regions of memory of a remote client machine, the graph nodes corresponding to a command buffer and to associated data structures and kernels of the command buffer used to initialize a hardware accelerator and execute the kernels, and the manifest indicating a destination memory location of each of the graph nodes and dependencies of each of the graph nodes; identifying, based on the manifest, the command buffer and the associated data structures to copy to the host memory; identifying, based on the manifest, the kernels to copy to local memory of the hardware accelerator; and patching addresses in the command buffer copied to the host memory with updated addresses of corresponding locations in the host memory.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor executing a trusted execution environment (TEE) comprising a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) driver to interface with an FPGA device that is remote to the apparatus; and a remote memory-mapped input/output (MMIO) driver to expose the FPGA device as a legacy device to the FPGA driver, wherein the processor to utilize the remote MMIO driver to: enumerate the FPGA device using FPGA enumeration data provided by a remote management controller of the FPGA device, the FPGA enumeration data comprising a configuration space and device details; load function drivers for the FPGA device in the TEE; create corresponding device files in the TEE based on the FPGA enumeration data; and handle remote MMIO reads and writes to the FPGA device via a network transport protocol.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run an application, wherein the processor is to utilize the application in the TEE to: generate encrypted data of the application; copy the encrypted data to a local shared buffer; interface with a source network interface controller (NIC) to initiate a copy over a network of the encrypted data from the local shared buffer to a remote buffer of a remote platform, wherein the source NIC operates outside of a trust boundary of the TEE; and communicate at least one message with the remote platform to indicate that the encrypted data is available and to enable the remote platform to verify integrity of the encrypted data, wherein the one least one message comprises an authentication tag.