TrustMee: Self-Verifying Remote Attestation Evidence

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Autores principales: Sinaki, Parsa Sadri, Ahmad, Zainab, Xie, Wentao, Sebrechts, Merlijn, Kjällman, Jimmy, Gunn, Lachlan J.
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Publicado: 2026
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author Sinaki, Parsa Sadri
Ahmad, Zainab
Xie, Wentao
Sebrechts, Merlijn
Kjällman, Jimmy
Gunn, Lachlan J.
author_facet Sinaki, Parsa Sadri
Ahmad, Zainab
Xie, Wentao
Sebrechts, Merlijn
Kjällman, Jimmy
Gunn, Lachlan J.
contents Hardware-secured remote attestation is essential to establishing trust in the integrity of confidential virtual machines (cVMs), but is difficult to use in practice because verifying attestation evidence requires the use of hardware-specific cryptographic logic. This increases both maintenance costs and the verifiers' trusted computing base. We introduce the concept of self-verifying remote attestation evidence. Each attestation bundle identifies its verification logic in the form of a WebAssembly component that is downloaded by the verifier and executed. This approach transforms evidence verification into a platform-agnostic functionality that is implemented once for all platforms: the verifier measures the verification logic and then executes it to validate the evidence. As a result, verifiers can validate attestation evidence without any platform-specific code; the verification logic is just another measurement whose reference value can be checked with existing mechanisms. We implement this concept as TrustMee, a platform-agnostic verification driver for the Trustee framework. We demonstrate its functionality with self-verifying evidence for AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, and Intel SGX attestations, producing attestation claims in the standard Entity Attestation Token (EAT) format.
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spellingShingle TrustMee: Self-Verifying Remote Attestation Evidence
Sinaki, Parsa Sadri
Ahmad, Zainab
Xie, Wentao
Sebrechts, Merlijn
Kjällman, Jimmy
Gunn, Lachlan J.
Cryptography and Security
Hardware-secured remote attestation is essential to establishing trust in the integrity of confidential virtual machines (cVMs), but is difficult to use in practice because verifying attestation evidence requires the use of hardware-specific cryptographic logic. This increases both maintenance costs and the verifiers' trusted computing base. We introduce the concept of self-verifying remote attestation evidence. Each attestation bundle identifies its verification logic in the form of a WebAssembly component that is downloaded by the verifier and executed. This approach transforms evidence verification into a platform-agnostic functionality that is implemented once for all platforms: the verifier measures the verification logic and then executes it to validate the evidence. As a result, verifiers can validate attestation evidence without any platform-specific code; the verification logic is just another measurement whose reference value can be checked with existing mechanisms. We implement this concept as TrustMee, a platform-agnostic verification driver for the Trustee framework. We demonstrate its functionality with self-verifying evidence for AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, and Intel SGX attestations, producing attestation claims in the standard Entity Attestation Token (EAT) format.
title TrustMee: Self-Verifying Remote Attestation Evidence
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13148