AMD, Samsung, VMware and Members of RISC-V Keystone Community team up to ease development of Confidential Computing Apps by supporting Open-Source Certifier Framework.
In conjunction with Confidential Computing Summit 2023, VMware, Inc. has announced that it is joining forces with AMD, Samsung, and members of the RISC-V Keystone community to simplify the development and operations of confidential computing applications. These industry and community leaders will work together to ease the transition to practical confidential computing by collaborating on and contributing to the open source Certifier Framework for Confidential Computing project.
To help democratize confidential computing, VMware researched, developed and open sourced the developer-focused Certifier Framework for Confidential Computing project. By standardizing on an easy-to-use, platform-independent API for creating and operating confidential computing applications, AMD, Samsung and VMware aim to address a significant barrier to the adoption of confidential computing.
“Confidential Computing has the potential to secure workloads no matter where they run including in multi-cloud and edge settings. The challenge has been to help customers adopt and implement the standard with ease. The collective efforts of the growing ecosystem of contributors to Certifier Framework will help bring those benefits to bear to ISVs, enterprise customers, and Sovereign Cloud providers—enabling them to use this emerging technology more easily and effectively ,” said Kit Colbert, CTO, VMware.
“Collaborating with industry partners, like VMware, is critical for accelerating adoption of confidential computing and securing workloads in the cloud. No matter the size or technical sophistication of an organization, or where a workload is deployed, the Certifier Framework will help more customers realize the benefits of confidential computing,” said Raghu Nambiar, corporate vice president, Data Center Ecosystems and Solutions, AMD.
“We are pleased to be supporter of the Certifier Framework and share the common goal of accelerating the adoption of confidential computing through a developer-friendly API for confidential computing trust management,” said Yong Ho Hwang, VP and Head of Security & Privacy Team at Samsung Electronics.
“Keystone brings the benefits of open source to the confidential computing hardware community. We are pleased to leverage the Certifier Framework to help confidential computing developers maintain choice over platform selection as our capabilities evolve,” said Krste Asanovic, Professor, Computer Science Division, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley.
By collectively advancing and contributing to the open source Certifier Framework, the companies and community members aim to effectively standardize on a set of developer APIs that will benefit the entire industry by accelerating the adoption of confidential computing as it becomes available in the x86, Arm, and RISC-V ecosystems.
