What is Remote attestation?

A mechanism in which a device signs the state of its running software with an on-chip key and presents it to a remote server for trust verification.

Field: Hardware Security

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Questions that mention Remote attestation (2)

  1. Which describes remote attestation?
  2. In confidential computing on the cloud, what is the purpose of CPU features that encrypt virtual machine memory (such as AMD SEV or Intel TDX)?

Related terms

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Trusted execution environment (TEE) Hypervisor Anti-rollback protection Cold boot attack Constant-time implementation Counterfeit chip eFuse Fault injection attack Hardware Trojan

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