Enclaveor

Enclaveor is a software framework designed to facilitate the creation, management, and orchestration of secure computing enclaves on heterogeneous hardware platforms. Developed initially by a consortium of academic researchers and industry partners in 2021, the project aims to abstract the complexities of enclave-based execution environments such as Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone, and emerging RISC‑V secure extensions. By providing a unified API and runtime, Enclaveor enables developers to write applications that can be deployed across multiple enclave technologies without extensive code modification.

Key components of the framework include a language‑agnostic enclave definition language, a scheduler that maps enclave workloads to appropriate hardware resources, and a set of security primitives for attestation, sealing, and encrypted inter‑enclave communication. The runtime is open‑source under the Apache 2.0 license and has been integrated into several cloud‑provider offerings for confidential computing, where it assists in isolating sensitive workloads from the host operating system and other tenants.

Adoption of Enclaveor has been noted in domains such as financial analytics, healthcare data processing, and machine‑learning model inference, where data confidentiality and integrity are paramount. Critiques have focused on performance overhead introduced by the abstraction layer and the reliance on up‑to‑date hardware support. Ongoing development efforts target performance optimization, expanded support for emerging enclave architectures, and enhanced tooling for debugging and verification.