Network middleboxes provide the first line of defense for enterprise networks. Many of them typically inspect packet payload to filter malicious attack patterns. However, the widespread use of end-to-end cryptographic protocols designed to promote security and privacy, either inhibits deep packet inspection in the network or forces enterprises to use solutions that are not secure. This article introduces a complete framework for building secure and practical network middleboxes, called EVE, which enables visibility over encrypted traffic. EVE securely processes encrypted traffic using a combination of hardware-based trusted execution and software security technology. For enhanced programmability and security, EVE provides a high-level programming interface based on the Rust language. The high-level APIs of EVE provide security and significantly ease the development effort by hiding the details of cryptographic operations, enclave processing, TCP reassembly, and out-of-band key sharing. Our evaluation shows EVE supports diverse use cases with multiple encryption protocols in a secure fashion while delivering high performance.

Minimizing response time of mobile applications is critical for user experience. Existing work predominantly focuses on reducing mobile Web latency, whereas users spend more time on native mobile apps than mobile Web. Similar to Web, mobile apps contain a chain of dependencies between successive requests. However, unlike Web acceleration where object dependencies can easily be identified by parsing Web documents, App acceleration is much more difficult because the dependency is encoded in the app binary.