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Remote Attestation

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Research roundup documents years of attacks breaking TEE security guarantees

A new analysis compiles a series of publicly documented attacks against trusted execution environments (TEEs) from Intel SGX and AMD SEV, including Foreshadow, SGAxe, ÆPIC Leak, BadRAM and WireTap.fail. These attacks range from software bugs in enclave code, like a memory-safety flaw in Signal's contact discovery enclave, to hardware-level exploits that let attackers forge or steal remote attestation keys, sometimes using physical access to memory chips.

Developer demonstrates binding mTLS client keys to a TPM to block key theft

A developer working on remote attestation for confidential VMs describes a technique for signing TLS handshake data using a private key generated and held inside a Trusted Platform Module, rather than storing it as a plain file on disk. The approach targets mutual TLS client authentication, where a stolen private key normally lets an attacker impersonate the machine anywhere that certificate is trusted.