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gunjan agarwal
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Enarx Demo : Confidential Computing - Part 3

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Enarx

  • It is the leading open source framework for running applications in TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments). It's part of the Confidential Computing Consortium from the Linux Foundation.

  • It provides a run-time TEE based on WebAssembly, allowing developers to deploy applications without any rewrites from languages like Rust, C/C++, C#, Go, Java, Python, Haskell and many more.

Setting up enarx environment

There are basically 3 major steps :
Before we start please check out the system requirements
Linux distribution - Ubuntu 21.10

1) Initial setup
2) Installing Enarx
3) Running Enarx

Initial Setup

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install git curl gcc pkg-config libssl-dev musl-tools python3-minimal
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Also, we will need rust and WebAssembly Rust toolchain:

Rust

$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
$ source $HOME/.cargo/env
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WebAssembly Rust Toolchain

$ rustup target install wasm32-wasi
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Installing Enarx

Enarx can be installed from github as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/enarx/enarx
$ cd enarx/
$ cargo build
$ cargo install --bin enarx --path ./
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Running Enarx
Let's create a simple hello world rust program by :

$ cd ~/
$ cargo init --bin hello-world
$ cd hello-world
$ echo 'fn main() { println!("Hello, Enarx!"); }' > src/main.rs
$ cargo build --release --target=wasm32-wasi
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You can now run the WebAssembly program in an Enarx keep.

enarx run target/wasm32-wasi/release/hello-world.wasm
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You should see your output :

output

Running on different backend
To see what backends are supported on your system, run:

$ enarx info
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As, you can see in the below screenshot, my computer supports kvm, so I use kvm to run my backend
backend info

enarx run --backend=kvm target/wasm32-wasi/release/hello-world.wasm
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output

In this post, I have shared my journey for setting up enarx, but there are multiple ways to do so, if you want to do it in another way, please refer enarx

Happy Coding!!

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