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lyie28 authored Dec 18, 2023
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These trusted elements make up what we call the **Trusted Computing Base** or **TCB** of our application.

In the context of a regular AI API deployed in the Cloud, the TCB is made of:
In the context of a regular AI API deployed in the Cloud, the TCB is made of:

+ The hardware: the physical infrastructure on which everything runs. This includes the actual servers, the networking equipment, storage devices, etc. If there's a hardware vulnerability (like the well-known Meltdown or Spectre vulnerabilities that affected many modern processors), it can undermine the security of everything running on that hardware.
+ The hypervisor: it is responsible for creating, managing, and isolating virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical host. If there's a vulnerability in the hypervisor, malicious entities might escape their VM and affect other VMs on the same host. In the cloud, the hypervisor is the responsibility of the cloud provider.
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