confidential-computing
4 posts tagged confidential-computing.
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Never Decrypted: When Math Is Too Slow, Silicon Keeps the Secret -- Confidential Computing and GPU TEEs
How trusted execution environments keep a secret in silicon, not math, why attestation is the linchpin of confidential AI, and where the silicon model breaks.
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Verify Me, Don't Trust Me: Apple PCC, Azure Confidential AI, and the Architecture of the Modern AI Cloud
Apple Private Cloud Compute and Azure confidential AI ship the same promise through unrecognisably different machinery. On five axes they differ in degree. On one axis -- verifiable transparency of the production fleet -- they differ in kind.
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Hyper-V Enlightenments, VMBus, and the Synthetic Device Model
How Hyper-V guests get high-performance device I/O without emulating legacy hardware: enlightenments, the TLFS, VMBus rings, the VSP/VSC pair, and why the host-side parser is the attack surface.
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Inside Azure Confidential VMs: SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, and the Paravisor that Makes Them a Cloud Product
Azure Confidential VMs combine AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX with the OpenHCL paravisor and MAA policy v1.2. A textbook tour from silicon to relying party.