SGXGauge: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Intel SGX

Abstract

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) such as Intel SGX facilitate the secure execution of an application on untrusted machines. A plethora of work focuses on improving the performance of such environments necessitating the need for a standard, widely accepted benchmark suite. We present SGXGauge, a benchmark suite for SGX containing a diverse set of workloads from different domains. We also thoroughly characterize the behavior of the benchmark suite on a native platform and on a platform that uses a library OS-based shim layer (GrapheneSGX).