The Secure Enclave

New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel

On-chip TEEs withstand rooted OSes but fall instantly to cheap physical attacks.

Tinfoil Containers

Run any containerized workload in a secure enclave.

Apple’s Containerization Framework and the Future of Secure Computing

The container revolution transformed how we deploy and manage applications, but it also inherited fundamental security and resource…

Tinfoil - Private AI

AI that keeps your data private at all times. Fast, powerful, and verifiable, thanks to secure hardware enclaves.

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

Improve device security with Advanced Protection for Android - Android Help

When you turn on Advanced Protection, you get the strongest security and privacy features to protect you and your device against online attacks, harmful apps, and data risks. This feature offers seve

Secure Mode & Confidential · co/core

How co/core's two orthogonal provider guarantees work: Secure Mode (hardware attestation) and the Confidential tier (operator-blind inference).

Protected by its moat, Apple has time to get AI right

Best of all, the hardware it sells today will run whatever Apple comes up with.

Introducing Apple’s On-Device and Server Foundation Models

At the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, we introduced Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system integrated deeply into iOS 18…

Security research on Private Cloud Compute - Apple Security Research

Private Cloud Compute (PCC) fulfills computationally intensive requests for Apple Intelligence while providing groundbreaking privacy and security protections — by bringing our industry-leading device security model into the cloud. To build public trust in our system, we’re making it possible for researchers to inspect and verify PCC’s security and privacy guarantees by releasing tools and resources including a comprehensive PCC Security Guide, the software binaries and source code of key PCC components, and — in a first for any Apple platform — a Virtual Research Environment, which allows anyone to install and test the PCC software on a Mac with Apple silicon.

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

Thread by @matthew_d_green on Thread Reader App

@matthew_d_green: So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to wo...…