TECHNICAL WORKSHOP SERIES: Secure Programming with Intel SGX by Ali Abbasi Tadi, Ph.D. Candidate

Monday, November 6, 2023 - 15:00

School of Computer Science

Technical Workshop SeriesSecure Programming with Intel SGX

Presenter:  Ali Abbasi Tadi, Ph.D. Candidate

Date: Monday, November 6th, 2023

Time:  3:00 pm- 4:00pm

Location: 4th Floor (Workshop space) at 300 Ouellette Avenue (School of Computer Science Advanced Computing Hub)

 

LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED once the presentation has begun.

 

Abstract: 

In today’s world, where artificial intelligence has revolutionized every industry, the concerns about using AI models have increased as well. One of these concerns is privacy in machine learning as a service. There is a challenge to find a way to do computations of machine learning in a cloud environment in a secure way. Intel Software Guard eXtension (SGX) is an ideal tool for doing secure programming for machine learning. SGX allows private programming so that only the trusted entities can access the code and data of the training model.  This talk explores how to design a trusted program using Linux SGX SDK. We investigate the concepts of Intel SGX data structure as well as sealing and attestation in the SGX environment. Also, we provide examples to do secure programming without any unauthorized access from OS or a third party to the data.

 

 

Workshop Outline:

The main idea of Intel SGX

How Intel SGX works.

What is sealing?

What is attestation?

How to design a simple secure program using Intel SGX

 

Prerequisites:

Shell scripting, C/C++ programming

 

Biography: 

Ali is pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Windsor. His main research interest is security/privacy in machine learning. He has publications on private computing in top-tier conferences and peer-reviewed journals. He has received various scholarships from the University of Windsor and got 5th place in the iDash security 2022 competition.  He has been invited as a speaker at the Advanced Computing Hub at the University of Windsor. He is serving as the program committee and editorial board of top-tier conferences and journals.  He is currently developing a secure framework for highly qualified parallel clustering for sensitive genomic data.