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Sure I'm missing something, but isn't that just an untrusted server self-reporting its own hash? Apple publishes the bootloader source and we'd have to assume it's what's actually running and reporting honestly the hash of the OS it's hosting. So we need to go earlier in the chain. In the end, from afar, we don't know if we're communicating with an actual Secure Enclave/SGX whatever or something that just acts like one.

Matt Green's posts about it so am sure it's been thought out - but hard to understand how it doesn't just depend on employees doing the right thing, when if you could, you would need all the rigmarole.



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