RFC 9397 · INFORMATIONAL · 2023

Trusted Execution Environment Provisioning Architecture

Overview

RFC 9397, “Trusted Execution Environment Provisioning Architecture”, is an Informational document published in July 2023 by M. Pei, H. Tschofenig, D. Thaler, D. Wheeler. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

A Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is an environment that enforces the following: any code within the environment cannot be tampered with, and any data used by such code cannot be read or tampered with by any code outside the environment. This architecture document discusses the motivation for designing and standardizing a protocol for managing the lifecycle of Trusted Applications running inside such a TEE.

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