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A TEE-Based Architecture for Confidential and Dependable Process Attestation in Authorship Verification

David Condrey

A TEE architecture collects continuous process attestation evidence with hardware tamper resistance against adversarial platform owners.

arxiv:2603.00178 v3 · 2026-02-26 · cs.CR · cs.AR · cs.OS

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C1strongest claim

We present the first architecture for continuous process attestation evidence collection inside TEEs, providing hardware-backed tamper resistance against trust-inverted adversaries with graduated input assurance from software-channel integrity (Tier 1) through hardware-bound input (Tier 3).

C2weakest assumption

The security analysis derives formal bounds under combined threat models including trust inversion and TEE side channels, parameterized by a conjectural side-channel leakage bound esc that requires empirical validation.

C3one line summary

First TEE-based architecture for continuous process attestation with hardware tamper resistance, tiered assurance levels, Markov-chain dependability modeling, and resilient protocol achieving over 99.5% evidence chain availability.

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First computed	2026-05-26T01:03:26.753490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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bd7e21871d1975705932099f0bf16eb8e35f4eae0de6dc794948417f6d87397d

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arxiv: 2603.00178 · arxiv_version: 2603.00178v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.00178 · pith_short_12: XV7CDBY5DF2X · pith_short_16: XV7CDBY5DF2XAWJS · pith_short_8: XV7CDBY5

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