microsoft/litebox

★3,250Rust🇺🇸 North AmericaMIT⑂ 185Issue 124Updated Oct 29, 2026

A security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution

Microsoft's new Rust library OS shrinks the attack surface — LiteBox is an early-stage, Rust-based sandboxing library OS that minimizes the host interface to cut attack surface. Its North/South shim design lets it run unmodified Linux programs on Windows, sandbox Linux apps, or run on SEV-SNP, OP-TEE, and LVBS, in both kernel and user mode.

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