# Don't trust, verify (an untrusted host)

**URL:** <https://forum.scrt.network/t/dont-trust-verify-an-untrusted-host/1669>\
**Category:** Secret Network\
**Created:** [May 31, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.scrt.network/t/dont-trust-verify-an-untrusted-host/1669 "2020-05-31T11:06:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![reuven](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.scrt.network/reuven/32/326_2.png) [@reuven](https://forum.scrt.network/u/reuven)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.scrt.network/t/dont-trust-verify-an-untrusted-host/1669/22 "2021-04-16T09:02:38Z")

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For future reference to readers of this forum post (which is linked from the grants blog post), Informal Systems are building tools that should be useful for this work. Specifically `tendermint-rs` and `ibc-rs`:

> **[Informal Systems, Inc.](https://informal.systems/products/)**
>
> Verifiable distributed systems and organizations.

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**Author:** ![cybertelx](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.scrt.network/cybertelx/32/2943_2.png) [@cybertelx](https://forum.scrt.network/u/cybertelx)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.scrt.network/t/dont-trust-verify-an-untrusted-host/1669/23 "2022-01-16T07:19:51Z")

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I don’t know too much about the protocol, but what happens if someone gets an SGX key?  
They could fake attestations and instead of running code in the enclave, an attacker node could probably just emulate it and then privacy is broken

not a cryptographer

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