TEEP Working Group P. Yang Internet-Draft M. Chen Intended status: Informational L. Su Expires: 5 January 2024 China Mobile T. Pang Huawei Technology Co.,Ltd. 4 July 2023 TEEP Usecase for Confidential Computing in Network draft-ietf-teep-usecase-for-cc-in-network-04 Abstract Confidential computing is the protection of data in use by performing computation in a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment. Confidential computing could provide integrity and confidentiality for users who want to run applications and process data in that environment. When confidential computing is used in scenarios which need network to provision user data and applications in the TEE environment, TEEP architecture[I-D.ietf-teep-architecture] and protocol [I-D.ietf-teep-protocol] could be used. This document focuses on using TEEP to provision Network User data and applications in confidential computing. This document is a use case and extension of TEEP and could provide guidance for cloud computing, [MEC] and other scenarios to use confidential computing in network. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on 5 January 2024. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2023 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 1] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/ license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Revised BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Revised BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1. Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Notional Architecture of using confidential computing in network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.1. Case 1: UA, TA and PD are bundled as a package . . . . . 5 4.2. Case 2: PD is a separate package, TA and UA are integrated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.3. Case 3: TA and PD are bundled as a package, with or without UA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.4. Case 4: TA and PD are separate packages, with or without UA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8.1. Normative Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8.2. Informative Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Appendix A. Submodules in TEEP Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1. Introduction The Confidential Computing Consortium defined the concept of confidential computing as the protection of data in use by performing computation in a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment [CCC-White-Paper]. In detail, computing unit with confidential computing feature could generate an isolated hardware-protected area, in which data and applications will be protected from illegal access or tampering. When using network to provision confidential computing environment, users need to attest and deploy their data and applications in the TEE environment inside confidential computing device by network. This network could be a cloud, MEC or other network that provide confidential computing resource to users. For example in MEC, the autonomous vehicles could deploy private Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 2] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 applications and data on confidential computing device to calculate on-vehicle and destination road information without knowing by MEC platform. The TEEP WG defined the standardization of an architecture and protocol for managing the lifecycle of trusted applications running inside a TEE. In confidential computing, the TEE can also be provisioned and managed by TEEP architecture and protocol. This document illustrates how a network user uses the TEEP protocol to provision its private data and applications in confidential computing device. The intended audiences for this use case are network users and operators who are interested in using confidential computing in network. 2. Terminology 2.1. Terms The following terms are used in this document. * Network Management/Orchestration Center(Network M/OC): M/OC exists in the management and orchestration layer of network. Network User uses the M/OC to request for computing resource. The TAM is inside the M/OC to provide management function to TEEP Agent via TEEP broker. * Network User: Network User possesses personalization data and applications that need to be deployed on confidential computing device. * Confidential Computing Device: Confidential Computing Device is connected by the network and can provide confidential computing service to Network User. * Package: Package is a unit that is owned by Network User and could be deployed on TEE/REE or treated as application data. TA (Trusted Application) in confidential computing could be an application, or packaged with other components like library, TEE shim or even Guest OS. The specific package of confidential computing could refers to the white paper of [CCC_Common_Terminology] by CCC. * Personalization Data(PD): Data that holds by Network User and needs to be protected by TEE during processing. Other terms like TAM, TEE, REE, TA will reuse the term definition defined in [I-D.ietf-teep-architecture]. Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 3] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 2.2. Requirements Language The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. 3. Notional Architecture of using confidential computing in network Figure 1 is the architecture of confidential computing in network. Two new components Network User and Network M/OC are introduced in this document. The connection between Network User and M/OC depends on the implementation of specific network. The connection between network user and UA (Untrusted Application) or TA depends on the implementation of application. The connection between TAM, TEEP Broker and TEEP Agent refers to the TEEP protocol. Interactions of all components in this scenario are described in the Usecase section. +--------------------------------------+ | Confidential Computing Device | | +--------+ | +------------+ | +-------------+ | | | |Network M/OC| | | TEE | | TEEP | | | +-------+ | | | +--------+ | +---> Broker <-----------> | | | | | TEEP | | | | | | | | TAM | | | | | Agent |<----+ | | | | | | | | | +--------+ | | <--+ | | +---^---+ | | | | +--------+ | | +-----|------+ | | +--------+ | | | | | | | TA | | +-------+ | | | | | | |<--------> |<--+ | | | | +--------+ | | UA | | +-----V------+ | +-------------+ | |<--------->Network User| | +-------+ | | (Package) | +--------------------------------------+ +------------+ Figure 1: notional architecture of confidential computing in network 4. Use Cases The basic process of how a Network User utilizes confidential computing is shown below. At present, the main instances types exist in industry of confidential computing are confidential process, confidential container and confidential VM. The following use cases are possible packaging models. Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 4] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 4.1. Case 1: UA, TA and PD are bundled as a package In this case, UA, TA and PD are bundled as a package. If Network User provides this package, the process of TEEP is as follow. 1. Network User requests for confidential computing resource to Network M/OC. 2. M/OC orchestrates confidential computing device to undertake the request. 3. TAM requests remote attestation to TEEP Agent, TEEP Agent then sends the evidence to TAM. TAM works as Verifier in [RFC9334]. 4. After verification, Network User works as Relying Party to receive the attestation result. If positive, Network User establishes secure channel [NIST-Special-Publication-800-133-V2] with TEEP Agent, and transfers this package to TEEP Agent. 5. TEEP Agent deploys TA and personalization data in TEE, then deploy UA in REE. As for informing Network Users to develop their applications and data, the mapping of UA, TA and implementations are shown in figure 2. This document gathers the main hardware architectures that support confidential computing, which include [TrustZone], [SGX], [SEV-SNP], [CCA] and [TDX]. The brace means the operation steps to deploy packages. The arrow means deploy package to a destination. The "att" means attestation challenge for the target. +-------------+--------------------------------------------------+ |Package Mode | Case 1 (UA, TA, PD) | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | | Confidential | Confidential | | | Instance | Process in | Container in | Confidential | | Type | Physical or | Physical or | VM | | | Virtual Machine| Virtual Machine| | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | Hardware | TrustZone, | TrustZone,SGX,| | | Architecture| SGX | SEV-SNP, CCA, | SEV-SNP,CCA,TDX| | | | TDX | | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | |{att TEEP Agent,|{att TEEP Agent,|{att TEEP Agent,| | Load | (UA,TA,PD)-> | (UA,TA,PD)-> | (UA,TA,PD)-> | | Sequence | Confidential | Confidential | Confidential | | | Process, | Container, | VM, | | | UA->REE} | UA->REE} | UA->REE} | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 5] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 Figure 2: TEEP Implementation of Case 1 4.2. Case 2: PD is a separate package, TA and UA are integrated In this use case, PD is a separate package, the UA and TA are integrated as a package. If Network User provides packages like this, the process of TEEP is as follow. 1. Network User requests for confidential computing resource to Network M/OC. 2. M/OC orchestrates confidential computing device to undertake the request. 3. Network User transfers UA and TA to confidential computing device via TAM. TAM then deploys these two applications in REE and TEE respectively. (In SGX, UA must be deployed first, then let UA to load TA in SGX.) 4. TAM requests remote attestation to TEEP Agent, TEEP Agent then sends the evidence to TAM. TAM works as Verifier in RATs architecture. 5. After verification, Network User works as Relying Party to receive the attestation result. If positive, Network User establishes secure channel with TA, and deploys personalization data to TA. The mapping of UA, TA and implementations are shown in figure 3. +-------------+--------------------------------------------------+ |Package Mode | Case 2 (UA, TA) (PD) | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | | Confidential | Confidential | | | Instance | Process in | Container in | Confidential | | Type | Physical or | Physical or | VM | | | Virtual Machine| Virtual Machine| | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | Hardware | TrustZone, | TrustZone, SGX,| | | Architecture| SGX | SEV-SNP, CCA, | SEV,CCA,TDX | | | | TDX | | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | | {UA->REE, | {UA->REE, | {UA->REE, | | |TA->Confidential|TA->Confidential|TA->Confidential| | Load | Process, | Container, | VM, | | Sequence | att TEEP Agent,| att TEEP Agent,| att TEEP Agent,| | | PD->TA} | PD->TA} | PD->TA} | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 6] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 Figure 3: TEEP Implementation of Case 2 4.3. Case 3: TA and PD are bundled as a package, with or without UA In this case, the process of TEEP is as follow. 1. Network User requests for confidential computing resource to Network M/OC. 2. TAM in M/OC orchestrates confidential computing device to undertake the request. 3. If there has UA, Network User deploys UA in REE. 4. TAM requests remote attestation to TEEP Agent, TEEP Agent then sends the evidence to TAM. The TAM works as Verifier in RATs architecture. 5. After verification, Network User works as Relying Party to receive the attestation result. If positive, Network User establishes secure channel with TEEP Agent and transfers TA and PD package to TEEP Agent. +-------------+--------------------------------------------------+ |Package Mode | Case 3 (TA, PD) (UA) or (TA, PD) | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | | Confidential | Confidential | | | Instance | Process in | Container in | Confidential | | Type | Physical or | Physical or | VM | | | Virtual Machine| Virtual Machine| | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | Hardware | TrustZone, | TrustZone, SGX,| | | Architecture| SGX | SEV-SNP, CCA, | SEV,CCA,TDX | | | | TDX | | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | | {UA->REE, | {UA->REE, | {UA->REE, | | Load | att TEEP Agent,| att TEEP Agent,| att TEEP Agent,| | Sequence | (TA,PD)-> | (TA,PD)-> | (TA,PD)-> | | | Confidential | Confidential | Confidential | | | Process} | Container} | VM} | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ Figure 4: TEEP Implementation of Case 3 4.4. Case 4: TA and PD are separate packages, with or without UA In this case, Network User provides TA and PD as separate packages with or without UA. The process of TEEP in this case is as follow. Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 7] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 1. Network User requests for confidential computing resource to Network M/OC. 2. TAM in M/OC orchestrates confidential computing device to undertake the request. 3. Network User transfers UA to TAM, then TAM deploys UA in REE. 4. Network User transfers TA to TAM, then TAM transfers TA to TEEP Agent. 5. TAM requests remote attestation to TEEP Agent, TEEP Agent then sends the evidence to TAM. TAM works as Verifier in RATs architecture. 6. After verification, Network User works as Relying Party to receive the attestation result. If positive, Network User establishes secure channel with TA and transfers PD to it. +-------------+--------------------------------------------------+ |Package Mode | Case 4 (TA),(PD) or (TA),(PD),(UA) | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | | Confidential | Confidential | | | Instance | Process in | Container in | Confidential | | Type | Physical or | Physical or | VM | | | Virtual Machine| Virtual Machine| | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | Hardware | TrustZone, | TrustZone, SGX,| SEV,CCA,TDX | | Architecture| SGX | SEV, CCA, TDX | | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | Load | {UA->REE, | {UA->REE, | {UA->REE, | | Sequence |TA->Confidential|TA->Confidential|TA->Confidential| | | Process, | Container | VM, | | | att TEEP Agent,| att TEEP Agent,| att TEEP Agent,| | | PD->TA} | PD->TA} | PD->TA} | +-------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ Figure 5: TEEP Implementation of Case 6 5. IANA Considerations This document does not require actions by IANA. 6. Security Considerations Besides the security considerations in TEEP architecture, there is no more security and privacy issues in this document. Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 8] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 7. Acknowledgements TBD 8. References 8.1. Normative Reference [I-D.ietf-teep-architecture] Pei, M., Tschofenig, H., Thaler, D., and D. M. Wheeler, "Trusted Execution Environment Provisioning (TEEP) Architecture", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft- ietf-teep-architecture-19, 24 October 2022, . [I-D.ietf-teep-protocol] Tschofenig, H., Pei, M., Wheeler, D. M., Thaler, D., and A. Tsukamoto, "Trusted Execution Environment Provisioning (TEEP) Protocol", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft- ietf-teep-protocol-15, 3 July 2023, . [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, . [RFC9334] Birkholz, H., Thaler, D., Richardson, M., Smith, N., and W. Pan, "Remote ATtestation procedureS (RATS) Architecture", RFC 9334, DOI 10.17487/RFC9334, January 2023, . 8.2. Informative Reference [CCA] ARM, "Arm Confidential Computing Architecture", March 2022, . [CCC-White-Paper] Confidential Computing Consortium, "Confidential Computing: Hardware-Based Trusted Execution for Applications and Data", January 2021, . Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 9] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 [CCC_Common_Terminology] Confidential Computing Consortium, "Common Terminology for Confidential Computing", October 2022, . [MEC] ETSI, "Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC);Framework and Reference Architecture", March 2022, . [NIST-Special-Publication-800-133-V2] NIST, "Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation", June 2020, . [SEV-SNP] Advanced Micro Devices, "AMD SEV-SNP: Strengthening VM- isolation-with-integrity-protection-and-more", January 2020, . [SGX] Intel, "Overview of Intel Software Guard Extension", June 2016, . [TDX] Intel, "Intel Trust Domain Extensions", August 2021, . [TrustZone] HUAWEI Technologies, "Kunpeng BoostKit for Confidential Computing TrustZone Kit", January 2022, . Appendix A. Submodules in TEEP Agent The original design of TEEP only includes TEEP Agent and TA inside TEE. While in confidential computing implementation, other submodules may also be involved in the TEE. In TEEP, these submodules could be covered by TEEP Agent. In SGX based confidential computing, submodule could provide convenient environment or API in which TA does not have to modify its source code to fit into SGX instructions. Submodules like Gramine Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 10] Internet-Draft teep usecase for CC in network July 2023 and Occlum .etc are examples that could be included in TEEP Agent. If there is no submodule in TEEP Agent, the TA and UA need to be customized applications which fit into the SGX architecture. In SEV and other architectures that support whole guest VM as a TEE, TEEP Agent doesn't have to use extra submodule to work as a middleware or API. However with some submodules like Enarx which works as a runtime JIT compiler, TA could be deployed in a hardware independent way. In this scenario, TA could be deployed in different hardware architecture without re-compiling. Authors' Addresses Penglin Yang China Mobile 32 Xuanwumen West Street, Xicheng District Beijing 100053 China Email: yangpenglin@chinamobile.com Meiling Chen China Mobile 32 Xuanwumen West Street, Xicheng District Beijing 100053 China Email: chenmeiling@chinamobile.com Li Su China Mobile 32 Xuanwumen West Street, Xicheng District Beijing 100053 China Email: suli@chinamobile.com Ting Pang Huawei Technology Co.,Ltd. 127 Jinye Road, Yanta District Xi'an 710077 China Email: pangting@huawei.com Yang, et al. Expires 5 January 2024 [Page 11]