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__turbobrew__yesterday at 11:14 PM1 replyview on HN

How does this compare with TPUs? Can you not have secrets in the TPU which cannot be accessed directly by apps, solving this threat vector? I get that you want compatibility with popular libraries, but I wonder if the actual solution is to use hardware support to enforce the secret boundaries.


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neo2006yesterday at 11:55 PM

I'm not super familiar with TPUs and Trusted execution environments but my understanding is that it serve a different threat model.

TEE aim to protect a certain workload from the host to avoid another workload on the same host from steeling secrets. Kloak aim is to protect the secret from the workload itself not the host.