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What are, if any, "advantages of remote attestation" besides enforcing DRMs and preventing sideloading/jailbreaking? Preventing those who need access to proprie
by qwerty456127 4y ago
What are, if any, "advantages of remote attestation" besides enforcing DRMs and preventing sideloading/jailbreaking? Preventing those who need access to proprietary systems from using any distro except 1-2 certified ones?
- Sirened 4y agoSo that you can be confident that your software hosted with a random cloud provider has been faithfully launched? This is why Intel is keeping SGX in their Xeon processors despite killing it off in consumer oriented series--servers benefit greatly from the ability to prove to clients that they are well behaved
- qwerty456127 4y agoI will never be confident, only the hoster's reputation of being competent and benevolent can matter. Nevertheless I appreciate the clue, thank you.
- Arch-TK 4y agoI mean I can see the advantages on a corporate network, or on just any network that you control. I may want to ensure that on my home network none of the devices have been deeply compromised so I may want to take advantage of the technology. But I feel like making this technology a normal part a user facing operating system risks normalising it to the point that companies will start abusing it to e.g. lock access to online resources to windows/mac only (potentially even leading to ISPs using it to require you to use approved operating systems to connect to the internet under the pretext of improved security).