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# FOSDEM devroom application

## Project details

Title of devroom: Confidential Computing

Elaborate description of proposed devroom (including possible topics):

Confidential Computing leverages hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments in order to protect and secure data in-use.

Multiple silicon vendors (AMD, ARM, IBM and Intel) provide Confidential Computing capable platforms and several open-source projects are building software stacks based on that technology.

In this devroom we want to explore existing and future confidential computing use cases and how they are or could be implemented through open-source components. We also want to explain key aspects of the technology like e.g. attestation or the hardware implementations behind it.

The possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Running confidential workloads (and its benefits)
* Running confidential workloads in the Cloud Native space (and its benefits)
    * Container runtimes support for Confidential Computing
    * Container engines support for Confidential Computing
    * ...
* Attestation
    * Unifying attestation across different technologies
    * Extending trust beyond the guest owner
    * ... 
* Hardware support for Confidential Computing
    * ...
* Open source Confidential Computing (An introduction to the existing solutions and the use cases they cover, etc)
* Confidential Computing Deployment: Challenges and benefits.
* Applying Confidential Computing to the Cloud Native space.
* Attester, Verifier, Appraiser, Key Broker, Reference Value Provider and Relying Party: An exploration of the attestation jungle
* Existing technologies
  * What do they have in common, how do they differ?
  * Which confidential computing use cases can they cover?
* RISC-V Confidential Computing
* Where is my trust boundary? - Confidential VMs vs Confidential Pods vs Confidential Containers


Why does it fit FOSDEM?

Confidential Computing is an emerging hardware technology that is almost exclusively enabled through open source components and projects. There are many use cases for it that are still unlocked or uncovered. Hosting a devroom for it is an opportunity to have the current software projects representatives describe the current efforts and projects to the FOSDEM audience, and hopefully trigger future contributions or even project creations around that technology.

Preferred slot:
[ ] - Half day (Saturday)
[ ] - Half day (Sunday)
[ F ] - Full day (any)
[ ] - Full day (Saturday)
[ ] - Full day (Sunday)

Preferred devroom kind
[ ] - Physical only
[ F ] - Prefer physical but would accept virtual
[ ] - Virtual only

## Contact Information

### Primary contact

Pentabarf username of devroom primary:

First Name:

Last Name:

E-mail: 

Submitter's affinity to the topic of the devroom: 

### Secondary contact

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## Additional information

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Special requiirements: None