Shrinking the Elephant - Confidential Computing Attestation Advancements

Explore the latest developments in confidential computing attestation through this insightful conference talk from the Linux Plumbers Conference. Delve into the progress made by the Confidential Containers project in creating the first fully open-source attestation service. Learn about the Attestation Service and Key Broker Service (KBS) projects, which form the foundation of a vendor-agnostic attestation service framework. Discover how the KBS API and protocol support various attestation models without being tied to specific vendor formats. Examine the verification backend's ability to handle major CoCo vendor attestation format evidences through a plugin interface. Gain insights into current challenges, including converging attestation results formats and integrating with the software supply chain. Explore emerging long-term issues, such as combining asynchronous, SoC vendor-independent trusted device attestation with guest attestation. Enhance your understanding of the evolving landscape of confidential computing and its critical components.