Squad: A Secure, Simple Storage Service for SGXBased Microservices Intel SGX has been the subject of numerous research and development projects. Moreover, this technology has been considered a robust option to secure the data being processed in cloud environments. Despite this, configuring SGXbased applications in complex and dynamic scenarios such as microservice architectures is still a challenge. The process of configuring such applications must guarantee the trustworthiness of the services, and must be simple and efficient. We then propose a solution for configuring and provisioning secrets to SGXbased applications made with help from the Intel SGX SDK. We present a simple solution that can be easily validated and hardened. Also, the solution is pluggable and can be extended to fit specific requirements or leverage other tools (e.g., for data persistence). In addition to describing our proposal, we also provide an evaluation that shows low overhead to the initialization and configuration time of SGX microservices deployed on Kubernetes. This work contributes to the stateoftheart of the usage of trusted execution environments in cloud computing.

TrustFS: An SGXEnabled Stackable File System Framework Data confidentiality in cloud services is commonly ensured by encrypting information before uploading it. However, this approach limits the use of contentaware functionalities, such as deduplication and compression. Although this issue has been addressed individually for some of these functionalities, no unified framework for building secure storage systems exists that can leverage such operations over encrypted data. We present TrustFS, a programmable and modular stackable file system framework for implementing secure contentaware storage functionalities over hardwareassisted trusted execution environments. This framework extends the original SafeFS architecture to provide the isolated execution guarantees of Intel SGX. We demonstrate its usability by implementing an SGXenabled stackable file system prototype while a preliminary evaluation shows that it incurs reasonable performance overhead when compared to conventional storage systems. Finally, we highlight open research challenges that must be further pursued in order for TrustFS to be fully adequate for building productionready secure storage solutions.