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Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)

Documentation Coming Soon

Detailed documentation about Trusted Execution Environment support in HyperBEAM is currently being developed and will be available soon.

Overview

HyperBEAM supports Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) through the ~snp@1.0 device, which enables secure, trust-minimized computation on remote machines. TEEs provide hardware-level isolation and attestation capabilities that allow users to verify that their code is running in a protected environment, exactly as intended, even on untrusted hardware.

The ~snp@1.0 device in HyperBEAM is used to generate and validate proofs that a node is executing inside a Trusted Execution Environment. Nodes executing inside these environments use an ephemeral key pair that provably only exists inside the TEE, and can sign attestations of AO-Core executions in a trust-minimized way.

Key Features

  • Hardware-level isolation for secure computation
  • Remote attestation capabilities
  • Protected execution state
  • Confidential computing support
  • Compatibility with AMD SEV-SNP technology

Coming Soon

Detailed documentation on the following topics will be added:

  • TEE setup and configuration
  • Using the ~snp@1.0 device
  • Verifying TEE attestations
  • Developing for TEEs
  • Security considerations
  • Performance characteristics

If you intend to offer TEE-based computation of AO-Core devices, please see the HyperBEAM OS repository for preliminary details on configuration and deployment.