decent-framework

Decent Framework

A wiki repo for Decent Framework, a framework for building secure distributed applications with enclaves.

Primary Projects

(Ordered from most recent to oldest)

Publish/Subscribe system (Decentagram)

These are the implementations for the paper Decentagram: Highly-Available Decentralized Publish/Subscribe Systems

The paper can also be accessed via https://dsn2024uq.github.io/Proceedings/pdfs/DSN2024-6rvE3SSpzFYmysif75Dkid/410500a274/410500a274.pdf

• Submitted Artifact
  • This is the artifact package submitted to the DSN 2024 conference
  • This artifact received the Distinguished Artifact Award from the DSN 2024 conference
  • The formal DOI for this artifact is https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10224298
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/lsd-ucsc/Decentagram
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
  • Below are the major components of the Decentagram implementation
• On-chain Broker
  • The on-chain broker for Decentagram
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/lsd-ucsc/decent-pubsub-onchain
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
• Off-chain Broker
  • Please refer to the DecentEthereum in Total Eclipse Detection section for more details
• Decent RA on-chain
  • On-chain smart contract for Remote Attestations of secure enclaves
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/lsd-ucsc/decent-ra-onchain
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
• DecentRevoker
  • Automated revocation of Decent components by using Ethereum smart contracts
  • off-chain broker
    • The off-chain broker for DecentRevoker
    • Git Repo: https://github.com/lsd-ucsc/DecentRevoker
      • Repo visibility: Public
      • Open source: MIT license
  • on-chain smart contract
    • The on-chain smart contract for DecentRevoker
    • Git Repo: https://github.com/lsd-ucsc/decent-revoker-onchain
      • Repo visibility: Public
      • Open source: MIT license

Total Eclipse Detection

These are implementations for the paper Total Eclipse of the Enclave: Detecting Eclipse Attacks from Inside TEEs

• EclipseMonitor
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/lsd-ucsc/EclipseMonitor
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
  • Unit Tests Status:
• Ethereum Difficulty Monitor Experiment
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/DecentDiffMonitorExpr
• DecentEthereum
  • A Ethereum Light client running inside of enclave
  • It provides block header hash verification service and smart contract event subscription service
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/lsd-ucsc/DecentEthereum
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license

Remote Attestation (DecentRA)

Enables mutual remote attestation between different enclave components

These are implementations for the paper Secure Distributed Applications the Decent Way

• DecentRA API
  • C++ library for DecentRA
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/decent-ra-api
• DecentRA Server
  • Implementation of DecentRA Server, which is used for generating SA report for local Decent components
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/decent-ra-server
• Sample Applications 1: DecentRide
  • Ride-sharing application built based on the micro-services architecture similar to Uber
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/decent-ridesharing
• Sample Applications 2: DecentHT
  • Distributed Hash Table (DHT) implemented with DecentRA, where only authorized Decent components can access the data
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/DecentDHT
• Formal Proofs: DecentRA Verif
  • Formal verification of the DecentRA protocols using ProVerif
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/DecentRaVerif
• Benchmarks: DecentTester
  • YCSB benchmarks on DecentHT
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/DecentTester

Decent Enclave Library

• DecentEnclave
  • This is the new repo replacing the decent-ra-api of the DecentRA project
  • All utility and helper classes and functions have been separated out from the decent-ra-api and became individual libraries and repos mentioned in this documentation
  • DecentEnclave is now only focusing on the foundational functionalities of the Decent Enclave framework
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/DecentEnclave
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license

Utility Libraries

• SimpleUtf
  • A simple and lightweight C++ library used to convert characters among UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/SimpleUtf
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
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• SimpleObjects
  • A simple and lightweight C++ library implements dynamic object types
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/SimpleObjects
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
  • Unit Tests Status:
• SimpleJson
  • A simple and lightweight C++ library parses JSON encoded messages into SimpleObjects, and encodes SimpleObjects into JSON messages
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/SimpleJson
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
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• SimpleRlp & AdvancedRlp
  • A simple and lightweight C++ library parses RLP and AdvancedRLP encoded messages into SimpleObjects, and encodes SimpleObjects into RLP or AdvancedRLP messages
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/SimpleRlp
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
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• SimpleSysIO
  • Provides virtual classes / interfaces for System IO operations, such as read/write files and TCP connections
  • It also provides implementation for SystemIO outside of an enclave environment, by using C standard library and Boost library
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/SimpleSysIO
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
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• mbedTLScpp
  • This library provides many C++ class wrappers for MbedTLS C objects
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/mbedTLScpp
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
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• SimpleBoostSelector
  • A set of CMake scripts utilize CMake’s FetchContent module to help you to only fetch the Boost sub-libraries that are needed by your project
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/SimpleBoostSelector
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license
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• SimpleCMakeScripts
  • Provides some helper CMake scripts to setup:
    • Unit test code coverage report
    • Decent Enclave CMake targets
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/SimpleCMakeScripts
    • Repo visibility: Public
    • Open source: MIT license

Forked Libraries

• MbedTLS
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/MbedTLS
  • We added additional CMake targets for DecentEnclave related projects
• wasm-micro-runtime
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/wasm-micro-runtime
  • We added additional CMake targets for DecentEnclave related projects
• wabt
  • Git Repo: https://github.com/zhenghaven/wabt
  • We added additional CMake targets for DecentEnclave related projects