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Platform AbstRaction for SECurity service
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# Welcome To PARSEC



**PARSEC** is the **P**latform **A**bst**R**action for **SEC**urity, an open-source initiative

to provide a common API to hardware security and cryptographic services in a platform-agnostic way. This abstraction layer keeps workloads decoupled from physical platform details, enabling cloud-native delivery flows within the data center and at the edge.





  Parsec Concept Diagram




Read the Parsec documentation [**online**](https://parallaxsecond.github.io/parsec-book/).



Read the whitepaper [**Security for the Infrastructure Edge**](https://www.arm.com/-/media/global/people/Security-For-The-Infrastructure-Edge-White-paper-NDA).



# Why PARSEC?



Use Parsec when you need:



- A **portable interface to your platform's Root of Trust** in order to manage keys and perform cryptographic operations without knowledge of the hardware.

- A simple and portable way to access the **best available security** of your platform in your **preferred programming language**.



# What PARSEC Provides



The value proposition of Parsec is that it provides the following:



- **Abstraction** – a common API that is truly agnostic and based on modern cryptographic principles

- **Mediation** – security as a microservice, brokering access to the hardware and providing isolated key stores in a multi-tenant environment

- **Ergonomics** – a client library ecosystem that brings the API to the fingertips of developers in any programming language: “easy to consume, hard to get wrong”

- **Openness** – an open-source project inviting contributions to enhance the ecosystem both within the service and among its client libraries



# Maintainers



PARSEC is a collaborative project. The current list of the individuals and organizations who maintain this project can be found [**here**](./MAINTAINERS.toml).



# Partner Organizations



See who is [**using and contributing to PARSEC**](./PARTNERS.md).



# Getting Started



If you are running on x86 Linux, check out [this guide](https://parallaxsecond.github.io/parsec-book/getting_started/linux_x86.html) to get started with Parsec quickly!



For examples of how to access PARSEC as a client application, check [this Rust client documentation](https://docs.rs/parsec-client/*/parsec_client/core/basic_client/struct.BasicClient.html).



Check the [**user**](https://parallaxsecond.github.io/parsec-book/parsec_users.html), [**client developer**](https://parallaxsecond.github.io/parsec-book/parsec_client/index.html) and [**service developer**](https://parallaxsecond.github.io/parsec-book/parsec_service/index.html) guides for more information on building, installing, testing and using Parsec!



# Community



Come and ask questions or talk with the Parsec Community in our Slack channel or biweekly meetings.

See the [Community](https://github.com/parallaxsecond/community) repository for more information on how to join.



# Contributing



We would be happy for you to contribute to Parsec!

Please check the [**Contribution Guidelines**](https://parallaxsecond.github.io/parsec-book/contributing/index.html)

to know more about the contribution process.

Check the [**open issues**](https://github.com/orgs/parallaxsecond/projects/1) on the board if you

need any ideas 🙂!



# Security Vulnerability Reporting



Check [**PARSEC's security policy**](./SECURITY.md).



# License



The software is provided under Apache-2.0. Contributions to this project are accepted under the same license.