Checked fact 448510 Nov 2026Money and compute
In the paper's example attestation protocol, the Verifier sends a challenge, the Attester's trusted hardware component gathers evidence and signs it together with the challenge, and the Verifier verifies the signature and appraises the evidence against reference values deemed trustworthy.
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the Verifier generates a challenge and sends it to the Attester; ... The trusted hardware component gathers the evidence on the attesting platform and signs the attestation data and challenge; ... The Verifier verifies the signature and appraises the evidence by applying some appraisal policy, such as comparing the attested platform state against a set of reference values that are deemed to be trustworthy
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A Technical Analysis of Confidential Computing, v1.3
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