“Parsec - The Platform Abstraction For Security” by Paul Howard, Anton Antonov

Parsec is an open-source project within the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF). It aims to provide convenient and portable interfaces to hardware security in the programming language of your choice. Parsec is being integrated into the meta-security layer of Yocto Project. This is an opportunity to learn more about Parsec and the value it can bring to your Yocto-based deployment. More and more compute workloads are migrating from the cloud to the edge, where they can be executed in closer proximity to sensor devices, avoiding expensive backhaul of data volumes to the cloud. Developers are used to deploying workloads with cloud-native tools and technologies, where APIs are portable and decoupled from physical platform details. But the threat landscape of edge computing is different from that of the cloud. It demands hardware security protection for private assets such as keys. A variety of hardware security solutions exist in the highly-diverse ecosystem of the edge. Using these requires knowledge of spec