EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
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EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
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Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#2Not bad. Runtime protection of the data is really good/useful. Lets see where this project will go :)
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#3> Enclaves can protect against threats like malware or rootkits and even rogue administrators and physical intruders.
What will they do when the government comes knocking with a subpoena?
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#4> Enclaves can protect against threats like malware or rootkits and even rogue administrators and physical intruders. What will they do when the government comes knocking with a subpoena?
Trace them enclaves with some side-channels. These things are not as secure as people think.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#5That performance is really impressive. I'm no expert in this space, but I was expecting somewhere around 30% the throughput of a regular DB. They are way higher than that.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#6Why are they trying to compare the required manifest to blockchain? Seems like an unnecessary comparison for SEO
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#7> Enclaves can protect against threats like malware or rootkits and even rogue administrators and physical intruders. What will they do when the government comes knocking with a subpoena?
In Rome (US) do like the romans (Google). They just give them Bing to search telemetry data.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#8I wonder how practical this is in reality. Production databases need Day 2 operations and capabilities like backups, replication, etc. Enclaves aren’t connected to the network, so you can’t practically back them up, nor can you replicate them for HA or DR purposes.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#9> Enclaves can protect against threats like malware or rootkits and even rogue administrators and physical intruders. What will they do when the government comes knocking with a subpoena?
Run “SELECT * FROM table” on the client side and give the results to them.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#10Ouch, the guys at edgedb are going to be sad about the name competition from microsoft.