The paper discusses the Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF), a platform designed to build secure data systems with confidentiality, integrity, and high availability (CIA). As cloud computing gains popularity and the demand for multiparty applications increases, creating modern CIA systems becomes more challenging. CCF combines centralized computing with decentralized trust, allowing deployment on untrusted cloud infrastructure governed by untrusted parties. It uses trusted execution environments for confidentiality and code integrity, along with state machine replication supported by an unchangeable ledger for data integrity and availability. CCF is open-source and available on GitHub.
Publication date: 19 Oct 2023
Project Page: https://github.com/microsoft/CCF
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.11559
