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Confidential computing is one of those “nerd snipes”. It is really interesting from a technical challenges and academic research perspective. Practically, hyp
by jnwatson 6y ago
Confidential computing is one of those “nerd snipes”. It is really interesting from a technical challenges and academic research perspective.
Practically, hyperjacking or compromise through the cloud provider is really low on the list of security issues.
- ENOTTY 6y agoI think Confidential Computing undersells the idea of "Attested Computing". For example, when users send data into the cloud, remote attestation can give them some confidence that data will be used according to the terms of consent.
- petertodd 6y agoFor example, Signal uses Intel SGX's remote attestation to attest to the privacy of your contact and social graph data: https://medium.com/@maniacbolts/signal-increases-their-reliance-on-sgx-f46378f336d3 https://medium.com/@maniacbolts/signal-increases-their-relia...