Open source and – well, bad people
For most people writing open source, it – open source software – seems like an unalloyed good. You write code, and other nice people, like you, get to add to it, test it, document it and use it. Look...
View ArticleMy 7 rules for remote-work sanity
If I need to get out of my office, I'll take the dog for a walk
View ArticleEnarx for everyone (a quest)
In your backpack, the only tool that you have to protect you is Enarx...
View ArticleWhat is confidential computing?
Industry interest has been high, and overwhelmingly positive.
View ArticleBreaking the security chain(s)
Your environment is n-dimensional - your trust must be, too.
View ArticleOf projects, products and (security) community
Not all open source is created (and maintained) equal.
View ArticleWhat’s a Trusted Compute Base?
Tamper-evidence, auditability and measurability are three important properties.
View ArticleConfidential computing – the new HTTPS?
Over the past few years, it’s become difficult to find a website which is just “https://…”. This is because the industry has finally realised that security on the web is “a thing”, and also...
View Article7 tips for kicking off an open source project
I’m currently involved – heavily involved – in Enarx, an open source (of course!) project to allow you run sensitive workloads on untrusted hosts. I’ve had involvement in various open source projects...
View Article2019: a year of Enarx
This year has, for me, been pretty much all about the Enarx project. I’ve had other work that I’ve been doing, including meeting with customers, participating in work with IBM (who acquired the...
View Articleオープンソースプロジェクトを始める7つのアドバイス
プロジェクト手法ではなく… 私は今Enarxプロジェクトに関わっています。とても深く、です。すでにご存知かもしれませんが、これはオープンソースのプロジェクトで、信頼できないホスト上で機密性の高いワークロードの実行を可能にするプロジェクトです。 何年もオープンソースプロジェクトに関わってきましたが、このプロジェクトで初めて私は共同創立者となりました。...
View Article2019年はEnarxの年でした
2020年はデモなど色々なプランを考えています！ 私にとって2019年はEnarxプロジェクトがほとんどでした。 他のしなければいけない業務もあって、例えば顧客会議、IBM（7月に私の勤めるRed Hatを買収してます）の業務、Kubernetesのセキュリティやパートナー企業と協業など重要なことは色々ありました。しかしEnarxが2019年のハイライトです。...
View ArticleNo security without an architecture
I attended a virtual demo this week. It didn’t work, but none of us was stressed by that: it was an internal demo, and these things happen. Luckily, the members of the team presenting the demo had...
View ArticlePost-Covid, post-open?
The world of lockdown to which we’re becoming habituated at the moment has produced some amazing upsides. The number of people volunteering, the resurgence of local community initiatives, the selfless...
View Article3 open/closed Covid-19 contact tracing questions
One of the cheering things about the pandemic crisis in which we find ourselves is the vast up-swell of volunteering that we are seeing across the world. We are seeing this equally across the IT...
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An Enarx milestone: binaries
This week is Red Hat Summit, which is being held virtually for the first time because of the Covid-19 crisis. The lock-down has not affected the productivity of the Enarx team, however (at least not...
View Article5 Rust reflections (from Java)
It’s been a long time since I properly learned a new language – computer or human. Maybe 25 years. That language was Java, and although I’ve had to write little bits of C (very, very little) and...
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