Checked fact 448410 Nov 2026Money and compute
The paper describes attestation as the process by which one party, the Verifier, assesses the trustworthiness of a potentially untrusted peer, the Attester, by obtaining an authentic, accurate and timely report about the software and data state of the Attester.
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Attestation is the process by which one party, called a "Verifier", assesses the trustworthiness of a potentially untrusted peer, i.e., the "Attester". ... by obtaining an authentic, accurate, and timely report about the software and data state of the Attester.
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A Technical Analysis of Confidential Computing, v1.3
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How confidential computing protects data in use, and what falls outside it 10 Nov 2026
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