Trustless TEE Salon (colab with Ulyssean) June '25

June 20, 2025; San Francisco

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Social + Sorting Hat Game

  • Mechanic: Guests self-identify interested breakout topic with sticker/badge:
  • Opening town hall: what is the state of AI infra security? What are the key use cases of confidential compute in AI infra security?

5:15 PM – 6:00 PM | Compass Calibration

  • Quintus Kilbourn | Why trustless TEEs? (15min) [slides]
    • Dan Boneh (Roast Master): where does trustless TEE fit within applied cryptography research context?; highlight design challenges (15min)
  • Daniel Genkin | Troubled Execution Environments: How Stuff Gets eXposed (15min)
    • Andrew Miller (Roast Master): When SGX switched from client to server, Intel got rid of the merkle tree securing memory. Wat do?

6:00 PM – 6:15 PM | Attacks

6:15 PM – 6:30 PM | Defense

6:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Lightning Talks

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM | Breakouts

  • Whiteboard 1: Architecting the ideal security machine from the silicon up
    • Michael Gao + Sagar + John McMaster
  • Whiteboard 2: Plugging the gaps all the way down
    • Daniel Genkin + Cristina Garman
  • Design jam: Agent Engineer - OAuth3
    • Andrew Miller + Xinyuan Sun

8:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Showtime

  • Breakout presentations