
Plain Strata: Attestation vs Re-Execution, Where Each Way of Checking AI Work Puts Your Trust
A chip can run your AI work inside a sealed booth and slide a signed note under the door saying what ran, and a $159 circuit board slid between a server's memory stick and its motherboard can cut the one wire the memory uses to complain about a failed write, so the booth keeps signing valid notes about yesterday's data. That note is called attestation, a chip vouching for its software with a key burned in at the factory, and the flaw is a choice the vendors made on purpose, because proving data is the newest version does not scale to hundreds of gigabytes, so an old page decrypts flawlessly…
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