[Din] Public Side Meeting on Confidential Computing for Agentic AI (11-12 Uhr [CEST] Monday at Park Suite 4 and online)

[Muhammad Usama Sardar <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

*TL;DR*: There will be a public side meeting on Confidential Computing 
for Agentic AI. See my HotRFC slides [0] and 4-minutes pitch [1] and if 
you are interested, just show up (first-come, first-serve).

*Info*:

     Date: 20th July (Monday) [today]

     Time: 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr (CEST)

     Room: Park Suite 4 [Capacity: 15] First-come first-serve; rest are 
welcome to join online: https://ietf.webex.com/meet/sidemeetings1

*Relevant for*: RATS, SEAT, WIMSE, DINRG, UFMRG, and agent2agent

*# General Overview
*

Thanks to all who contributed their insights in the last 4 years side 
meetings which resulted in the formation of the SEAT WG. This is another 
effort which builds on top of SEAT.

We will explore whether this work can fit the scope of DINRG. If not 
(and if there is sufficient interest), we can aim to form a RG in IRTF 
on confidential computing.

If you are interested in the topic but time does not work for you, 
please drop me an email with a couple of possible options for meeting 
times during the week convenient to you and I will be very happy to meet 
you.

*# Description*

Recent research on confidential computing has shown its core trust 
mechanism (namely attestation protocol) to be broken without the need of 
physical access to the desired server, leading to high-severity 
vulnerabilities like Intra-handshake.fail [2,3] (CVE-2026-33697 [4]) of 
CVSS 7.5, which indicates that further research is required on this 
topic before forming a WG dedicated to confidential computing. We will 
discuss potential topics of research and scope for the proposed RG. 
Based on discussions so far, folks have proposed focusing on agentic AI.

Best regards,

-Usama

[0] 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/materials/slides-126-hotrfc-sessa-15-confidential-computing-and-digital-sovereignty-00

[1] https://youtu.be/FDHWRijxKso?t=3285

[2] 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/408219182_Intra-handshakefail_CVE-2026-33697_High-severity_CVE_in_Attested_TLS

[3] https://github.com/muhammad-usama-sardar/intra-handshake.fail

[4] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33697