Confidential Computing on CPU and GPU Systems: How AI Data Centers Protect Data in Use

Modern AI runs on shared, high-performance infrastructure that processes enormous volumes of sensitive data and valuable model weights.…...

New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves

Encryption can protect data at rest and data in transit, but does nothing for data in use. What we have are secure enclaves. I've written about this before: Almost all cloud services have to perform some computation on our data. Even the simplest storage provider has code to copy bytes from an...

Decoupling for Security

This is an excerpt from a longer paper. You can read the whole thing complete with sidebars and illustrations here. Our message is simple: it is possible to get the best of both worlds. We can and should get the benefits of the cloud while taking security back into our own hands. Here we outline ...