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Nov 14

Welcoming Confident Security to the Confidential Computing Consortium

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The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) is pleased to welcome Confident Security as a new Start-Up Member.

Confident Security is dedicated to making AI truly private, developing technologies and practices that protect data and models in use without compromising performance or accessibility. The company’s mission closely aligns with the CCC’s goal of fostering open collaboration and standards to enable secure computation across industries.

Advancing Confidential AI Through Open Collaboration

By joining the CCC, Confident Security aims to help shape and accelerate the development of Confidential AI standards, ensuring privacy, integrity, and trust in next-generation machine learning systems. The company is particularly focused on frameworks that safeguard sensitive data used in AI training and inference while maintaining openness and interoperability.

In parallel, Confident Security has been expanding its open source contributions, sharing tools that support secure, privacy-preserving communication and computation. Recent releases include:

  • ohttp: privacy-preserving HTTP relay implementation
  • bhttp: binary HTTP protocol support
  • go-nvtrust: Go bindings for NVIDIA Trust extensions
  • twoway: bidirectional secure communication library

Most recently, Confident Security launched its largest open source project to date – OpenPCC, an open framework for privacy-preserving encryption and AI data security. This release was accompanied by an Axios feature and a comprehensive whitepaper outlining the architecture and technical foundations behind the project. OpenPCC represents a major milestone in the company’s vision to make secure, confidential computation accessible to all.

These projects demonstrate Confident Security’s commitment to advancing open, secure innovation and complement the CCC’s mission to drive adoption of confidential computing technologies.

Strengthening a Shared Mission

“It’s our mission to make AI truly private and part of making that happen are standards and education,” said a spokesperson from Confident Security. “For that reason, we’re very excited to join CCC and to contribute and collaborate with all the members to increase adoption and use of Confidential Computing technologies.”

As a recent addition to the CCC, Confident Security aligns itself with a global collective of technology pioneers, researchers, and innovators who are collaboratively striving to establish data protection and trusted execution as fundamental pillars for confidential computing. 

May 14

EQTY Lab Joins the Confidential Computing Consortium to Reinvent Trust in AI

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EQTY Lab, a pioneering startup dedicated to securing the future of artificial intelligence, is joining the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) as a Startup Member. Known for its innovative work in cryptographic AI governance, EQTY Lab has developed technologies that bring integrity, transparency, and accountability to high-stakes AI deployments across sectors like the public sector, life sciences, and media.

The CCC is excited to welcome EQTY Lab into its growing community of leaders advancing confidential computing. By joining the consortium, EQTY Lab deepens its commitment to building systems that protect sensitive data and enable trust throughout the AI lifecycle. Their flagship solution, the AI Integrity Suite, uses confidential computing and verifiable compute to provide cryptographic proofs of AI operations, making agentic training and inference both secure and auditable.

“At EQTY Lab, we believe the future of AI depends on creating systems that can be trusted with sensitive data and mission-critical decisions,” said Jonathan Dotan, CEO of EQTY Lab. “Joining the Confidential Computing Consortium represents a significant step in our mission to build verifiable AI systems that operate with both privacy and accountability that can now begin on the processor itself.”

EQTY Lab’s recent launch of a Verifiable Compute solution marks a milestone in confidential AI. The platform uses hardware-based cryptographic notaries, leveraging CCC technologies like VirTEE on AMD SEV and exploring future adoption of COCONUT-SVSM. This ensures a tamper-proof record of every data object and code executed during AI workloads.

By participating in CCC, EQTY Lab aims to integrate deeper with open source projects and contribute to developing next-generation specifications for secure AI. Their work spans from implementing Intel’s TDX and Tiber solutions to contributing to Linux Foundation efforts like SPDX and SLSA, aligning secure enclave attestations with modern SBOM standards.

EQTY Lab joins a vibrant community of innovators within the CCC, committed to ensuring that confidential computing becomes the foundation of secure, trustworthy, and privacy-preserving technologies.

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May 07

Shaping the Future of Attestation: Linaro to Host Endorsement API Workshop at Linaro Connect 2025

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This year’s Linaro Connect conference in Lisbon promises to be a landmark event for the confidential computing community. With multiple talks, workshops, and roundtables focused on trusted execution environments, attestation, and supply chain trust, confidential computing has emerged as an important theme of the 2025 conference.

Among the highlights: a keynote address from Mike Bursell, Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, who will share his insights on how industry-wide collaboration and open source are essential for the long-term success of this technology as it becomes mainstream.
Mike’s keynote is especially timely and relevant in the context of this year’s conference, where no fewer than 10 technical sessions are listed in the confidential computing track, from organisations including Arm, Linaro, Fujitsu and Huawei.

And it doesn’t end there.

On Tuesday May 13th (the day before the main conference), Linaro have allocated a full-day workshop on the topic of Endorsement APIs. This workshop brings together engineers, researchers, standards bodies, and open source contributors to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in remote attestation: how to securely and efficiently distribute Endorsements and Reference Values across the diverse ecosystem of confidential computing platforms and applications.

Why Endorsement APIs Matter

In Remote Attestation (RATS) architecture, Endorsements and Reference Values are essential artefacts for attestation evidence appraisal. They can originate from various sources throughout the supply chain, including silicon manufacturers, hardware integrators, firmware providers, and software providers. Their distribution is influenced by technical, commercial, and even geopolitical factors. The potential consumers of these artefacts, referred to as “Verifiers” in RATS terms, include cloud-hosted verification services, local verifiers bundled with relying parties, constrained nodes, and endpoint devices. This acute diversity creates challenges for software integration and poses fragmentation risks. Aligning on data formats and APIs will help address these challenges and maximise software component reuse for data transactions between endpoints.

A Space for Open Collaboration

Sharing its venue with the main Linaro Connect conference — the Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon — the workshop will combine hackathon-style prototyping sessions in the morning with interactive presentations and roundtables in the afternoon.
Confirmed participants include representatives from:

  • Arm
  • Intel
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Fujitsu
  • Oracle
  • IBM Research
  • NIST
  • Fraunhofer SIT
  • Alibaba
  • CanaryBit
  • and several university research groups

Activities on the day will include:

  • Gathering requirements from stakeholders
  • Surveying existing services and tools
  • Examining the interaction models between producers and consumers
  • Designing standardised APIs for retrieving endorsement artefacts from the supply chain
  • Hands-on prototyping

And most importantly, this is a space where implementers and spec authors can come together to turn ideas into prototypes, and prototypes into common solutions.

What is Linaro Connect?

If you’re new to the event, Linaro Connect is the premier open engineering forum for Arm software ecosystems. It brings together maintainers of open source projects, engineers from major silicon vendors, and contributors to key standards and security initiatives — all under one roof.

Whether you’re working on Linux kernel internals, UEFI, Trusted Firmware, or emerging attestation stacks, Linaro Connect is the place to share ideas, get feedback, and shape the direction of trusted computing.

You can view the full schedule for this year’s conference here.

Stay Tuned

We’ll publish a follow-up blog after the workshop, summarizing key outcomes, emerging standards proposals, and concrete next steps. Whether you’re building a verifier, defining a token format, or just starting to explore confidential computing, this is a conversation you’ll want to follow.

See you in Lisbon.