In late 2024 I with a group of friends founded a company that built runtimes for secure compute, and although we couldn't eventually go-to-market with it, we had a great deal of learning from it with one of us going on to found another great company (https://mirageprivacy.com).
I especially had the opportunity to work close to the metal as we were working with secure modules in Intel CPUs called SGX. I caught a bug for writing low-level systems and haven't satisfied the itch so, I've gone on to try my hands on things such as:
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