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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:35:36 +0100
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Elena,

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:06=E2=80=AFPM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com=
> wrote:
> 2) Can a malicious host *actually* create a fully deterministic
> environment? One that'll produce the same timing for the jitter
> entropy creation, and all the other timers and interrupts and things?
> I imagine the attestation part of CoCo means these VMs need to run on
> real Intel silicon and so it can't be single stepped in TCG or
> something, right? So is this problem actually a real one? And to what
> degree? Any good experimental research on this?

I'd like to re-up this question. It seems like assessing the reality
of the concern would be worthwhile.

Jason