Sharding for Security and Scalability

Sharding for Security and Scalability

Rekor, sigstore’s transparency log, recently reached an important milestone in its v0.6 release: it now supports log sharding.  Log sharding means that the entries associated with a single Rekor server can now be distributed among multiple backend logs, which...
What is a Trusted Computing Base?

What is a Trusted Computing Base?

What does it mean for a system or component to be “trusted” in the world of computer systems?  And why does it matter? In this post, we’ll provide an overview of what a Trusted Computing Base (TCB) is and provide a framework for how to evaluate a TCB’s security....