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Add items to FAQ #5

Closed cetola closed 4 years ago

cetola commented 4 years ago

Q: What's a TEE? A: A TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment and is key to confidential computing.

Q: What is the Enarx project? A: It is an SDK for building and signing hardware-protected trusted applications.

Q: How do I pronounce "Enarx"? A: Enarx pronunciation guide (British English). The way you'd pronounce the letter "n", then "arks". En-arks. Enarx. Simple.

Q: What does the word Enarx mean? A: It's almost Latin for "in the citadel" or "within the stronghold". Nathaniel McCallum and Mike Bursell, are both old/ancient language geeks, and wanted a cool name, which was not trademark-encumbered.

Q: What's a Keep? A: A Keep is the Enarx project's term for a TEE instance with all of the Enarx runtime and associated pieces inside it.

Q: What hardware architectures are supported by the Enarx? A: Currently Intel SGX and AMD SEV architectures are supported.

Q: What applications can run on Enarx? A: Any application compiled (or recompiled from any other language) into WebAssembly (WASM) can run on Enarx.

Q: How is Enarx licensed? A: Enarx is, and always will be, open source and uses the Apache 2.0 license.

Q: How can I contribute to the Enarx project? A: You can find information on how to get started over at How to contribute.

cetola commented 4 years ago

We're going to put off adding project specific FAQ until we have something from each project.