Project Oak: Meaningful control of data in distributed systems
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HN comment orderI think the authors should mention the background story for how this project originated at Google in Google Research (UK). Tried browsing through the Github project page and didn't see any obvious references, aside from the committers list. AFAIK, the first time I heard about "Project Oak" was about four or five years ago. This predates Apple's Private Cloud Compute.
Reminds me of a general-purpose version of the secure enclave that Moxie Marlinspike blogged about when he implemented secure contact look-up in Signal. Very cool Google released this as open source. Of course, it does require you to be able to trust the security of the enclaves and (at least in the Signal implementation) requires you to make some different performance trade-offs in order to prevent information leakage. Tangent: On a whim I Googled 'secure enclave risc-v' and, sure enough…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 277
- Total comments
- 75
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-15 | Google's Project Oak | azhenley | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-06-24 | Project Oak – Meaningful control of data in distributed systemsFirst breakout | azhenley | 125 | 25 |
| 2020-10-29 | Google's Project Oak – Meaningful control of data in distributed systems | azhenley | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-08-14 | Project Oak: Meaningful control of data in distributed systemsBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | tiziano88 | 147 | 50 |
| 2025-11-13 | Project-oak: Meaningful control of data in distributed systems | transpute | 1 | 0 |