NACRE: Rethinking Confidential Containers through Native Architectural Support

arXiv:2609.03849 · cs.CR, cs.OS · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.OS

Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

Comments: This is a position paper. We will update the manuscript once we complete the evaluation on FPGA platforms

Code: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abstraction — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Allocator — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Arca: A Lightweight Confidential Container Architecture for Cloud-Native Environments
• ACE: Towards A High-Assurance Isolated Virtualization Environment for RISC-V
• SGX-LKL: Securing the Host OS Interface for Trusted Execution
• Shielded but Lightweight: Building Practical Confidential Containers with ARM CCA
• ParaCell: Paravirtualized Secure Containers with Lightweight Intra-Container Isolation and Intent-Driven Memory Management

Related papers

• SoK: AI-Augmented Binary Reversing
• Relaxed Sender Anonymity for CBDC Interbank Settlement: A Zero-Knowledge Approach on Permissioned EVM
• Calibration-Family Overfit: Why Trusted Sabotage Monitors Don't Transfer Across Lineages
• Efficient Fuzzy PSI under One-Sided Assumptions
• Sealing the Audit-Runtime Gap for LLM Skills
• Token Composition: A Graph Based on EVM Logs