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This kind of thing has a history, eg this was on top of the TPM platform: https://web.archive.org/web/20060822043633/http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Wenbo_Mao/r

This kind of thing has a history, eg this was on top of the TPM platform: https://web.archive.org/web/20060822043633/http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Wenbo_Mao/research/tcgridsec.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20060822043633/http://www.hpl.hp... I wonder what's different this time.

bpye 4y ago
Confidential computing lets you reduce your TCB to the software running in your guest, be that a full OS like Linux or maybe some unikernel type thing, and the hardware itself. The intent is that a malicious host could not read or modify guest state, though of course they could simply refuse to schedule it.