Session Attestation for Unmodified TLS Services in Confidential Virtual Machines

📅 2026-09-08
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为了解决在机密虚拟机中验证TLS服务会话的问题,SessionLatch通过操作系统层面的可信观察与标准TLS密钥确认相结合的方法,在不修改应用、TLS实现或证书的情况下提供会话验证。
📝 Abstract
Confidential virtual machines simplify the migration of existing services into trusted execution environments, yet attesting their network connections often requires changing applications, TLS implementations, or certificates. We present SessionLatch, which provides session attestation while preserving all three. The key insight is that a trusted observation of the server's locally generated ephemeral public key, combined with standard TLS key confirmation, establishes the TEE endpoint guarantee without accessing TLS secrets. This moves attestation integration to the operating system: a temporary latch holds client encrypted records while evidence exchange overlaps the application TLS handshake, then removes itself after verification. The resulting connection retains enterprise service authentication and the native TLS data path, with no additional payload encryption. Mutual attestation uses the same construction and overlaps evidence generation at both endpoints. We implement Linux andWindowsintegrationandevaluaterealHygonCSVattestation. SessionLatch reduces short-upload mean latency by 63.1%/23.0% relative to TNG in interleaved Linux/Windows experiments. These results show that session attestation can strengthen existing confidential services without making a permanent proxy part of their data path.
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confidential virtual machines
session attestation
trusted execution environments
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SessionLatch
unmodified TLS services
confidential virtual machines
trusted execution environments
session attestation
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