Enclaver is an open source toolkit created to enable easy adoption of software enclaves.

Enclaves provide several critical features for operating software which processes sensitive data, including:

Isolation: Enclaves guarantee that sensitive data inserted, processed or decrypted can never be read by an attacker and leave the enclave.

Attestation: Enclaves make it possible to determine the exact identity and configuration of software running in an enclave.

Network Restrictions: External communication is limited and controlled. The network policy is built into the image and therefore the software attestation.

Enclaver currently supports AWS Nitro Enclaves, with more coming in the future.

Protect your data

Encrypt data and protect it during processing

Trust App Code

Attestation and SBOM tied back to source

Add privacy

Keep plaintext data out of logs and data dumps

Works with Docker

Run any container in an enclave

Technology: Secure Enclaves

Security & Isolation Privacy Attestation & Code Identity

An enclave guarantees that sensitive data can never leave the enclave unless specifically allowed. Data inserted, processed or decrypted can never be read by an attacker.

This protection starts in the hardware with isolated RAM, dedicated CPU cores, reduced default networking and Trusted Platform Modules (TPM), all powered by AWS Nitro Enclaves.

Enclaver adds additional network policy that is embedded into the enclave image by the author, so it can't be relaxed or removed.

An enclave fulfills the exact definition of privacy: being free from observation or disruption by others. Even a hostile parent machine can't introspect the enclave or modify its operating parameters.

Enclaves are the perfect environment to decrypt and process sensitive data of any sort. This can be long-lived like a complete microservice or short per-request workflows.

Encryption key access policies can be tied to the enclave's attestation which guarantees that only trusted code can fetch the key.

An attestation is a reproducable "measurement" of a piece of code that can be used to give the code a unique identity. An attestation can be generated at build time and trusted at runtime by infrastructure teams.

Tying credentials or access policies (for encryption keys) to an attestation is extremely powerful because the attestation can't be spoofed or stolen like human credentials or hardcoded secrets.