Plain Strata: Hardware Attestation, Checking the Room Instead of the Answer

Plain Strata · Sep 1, 2026 · 21m

Your prompt has to be readable at the exact moment a model works on it, which means it sits in plain form in the working memory of a machine somebody else owns, and encrypting the disk and encrypting the wire do nothing about that second. Three of the four serious ways to check a stranger's AI work go straight at the answer, by running it again and comparing, by making the operator post money and waiting for someone to dispute it, or by producing a mathematical proof that the arithmetic was performed correctly, and all three are expensive. The fourth does not look at the answer at all: it…