Long term R&D: TEE enhanced IC (proposal)

In a nutshell, recent hardware-aided trusted execution support ensures that code and data outside the CPU is handled in an encrypted form and only decrypted, while being processed by a secured execution context inside the CPU.

Can I ask a basic question? What is code? Is code a smart contract compiled into WASM?

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Iā€™m no expert at all on this topic, but I would expect it to be more than ā€˜justā€™ the wasm. At least Iā€™d expect the WASM runtime to be included, but I could see even more than that (e.g. a significant chunk of (or even the whole) operating system

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Now that three years have passed since this post, are there any updates on the TEE implementation progress?

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With @diegop gone, Iā€™m reaching out to @rrkapitz and @Severin for an update on the TEE progress report.

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Progress updates on TEE for boundary nodes are in this thread.

For subnets the latest I could find was from a month ago that work is in progress, but not even a guess as to when it could be ready.

@rbirkner can you maybe add something more substantial?

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