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Verification by Default: SCRT Labs Integrates Intel® Trust Authority Into Every SecretVM
Confidential computing has spent the last decade solving a hard problem: helping keep data protected even while it's actively being used. With Intel TDX and hardware-enforced execution environments, that battle is largely won. The harder, and ultimately more important question is the one that follows: how does the party relying on a confidential workload verify independently, without taking anyone's word for it, that the workload is actually running where it's supposed to, on hardware in the sta
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