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Yeah, it's a log of all the software that runs on the server. If you trust the secure boot process then you trust the log describes its contents.

If you don't trust the boot process/code signing system then you'd want to do something else, like ask the server to show you parts of its memory on demand in case you catch it lying to you. (Not sure if that's doable here because the server has other people's data on it, which is the whole point.)






One approach would be a chip design where a remote attestation request issues a hardware interrupt, and then the hardware hashes the contents of memory, more specifically the memory containing the code.

That's not quite enough but yes.

(You need to prove that the system is showing you the server your data is present on, and not just showing you an innocuous one and actually processing your data on a different evil one.)




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