Confidential computing's core trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist ^6%

The Register - By Kim Loohuis - 7/4/2026, 10:03 AM

Negativity Bias 18% - Appeal to Authority 12.5% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 10.6%

Vendors are trying to position "confidential computing" as the technical backbone of Europe's sovereign cloud ambitions. But new research shows that a security protocol used to prove cryptographic trust in the system may have a fundamental architectural flaw. Confidential computing rests on a mechanism called remote attestation, in which... more