Confidential computing: From root of trust to actual trust

This article is the fourth in a six-part series where we present various use cases for confidential computing—a set of technologies designed to protect data in use, like memory encryption, and what needs to be done to get the technologies’ security and trust benefits.

In this article, we will focus on establishing a chain of trust and introduce a very simple pipeline called REMITS that we can use to compare and contrast various forms of attestation using a single referential.

Part 1: Confidential computing primer
Part 2: Attestation in confidential computing
Part 3: Confidential