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Confidential Computing

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Privacy

TEEs, secure enclaves, and hardware-based AI privacy

paper 2026

When Agents Handle Secrets: A Survey of Confidential Computing for Agentic AI

Javad Forough, Marios Kogias, Hamed Haddadi

Agentic AI systems, specifically LLM-driven agents that plan, invoke tools, maintain persistent memory, and delegate tasks to peer agents via protocols such as MCP and A2A, introduce a threat surface that differs materially from standalone model inference. Agents accumulate sensitive context, hold credentials, and operate across pipelines no single party fully controls, enabling prompt injection, context exfiltration, credential theft, and inter-agent message poisoning. Current defenses operate

paper reviewed open access 2024

Federated Fine-Tuning of LLMs on the Very Edge: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Herbert Woisetschlager, Alexander Isenko, Shiqiang Wang + 2 more — arXiv preprint

Examines federated learning approaches for fine-tuning LLMs on edge devices, analyzing privacy guarantees, communication efficiency, and security trade-offs.

paper reviewed open access 2024

Confidential Computing for AI Workloads: Survey and Best Practices

Microsoft Azure Confidential Computing Team — Microsoft Research

Surveys confidential computing technologies (SGX, SEV, TDX) applied to AI workloads covering secure training, inference, and multi-party computation.