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Open source software doesn’t exist By open source I mean you know for sure what the software is doing when you execute it Pretty much all software today is executed on a foundation of closed source firmware and hardware designs Even if you have an open application running on an open operating system using only open source libraries that still gets executed by some opaque low level software on hardware which no one checks actually executes the logic its supposed to
I’ve been looking at what it would take to build TEEs with much better security assumptions (and much greater success at being secure within those assumptions) This podcast gives a great overview of why one would even want to do this and how Accompanying blogpost: https://writings.flashbots.net/ZTEE2-Supply-Chains
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Just published a piece with Christoph which frames all of the research going into “propsing rights allocation” (i.e. ePBS, APS, ET etc) There are a bunch of designs, posts and papers but its not always clear how it all relates to each other. We try to clarify that Some opinions and open questions also included https://collective.flashbots.net/t/isolating-attesters-from-mev/3837?u=quintus