Proof of Machinehood (Legacy)

Legacy term: Proof of Machinehood was an earlier Automata name for establishing machine authenticity with hardware-backed attestations. It is retained here so older links and references lead readers to the current terminology.

The durable concept is machine attestation: a device or workload produces cryptographic evidence about its hardware, software measurement, configuration, and security status. A remote party validates that evidence before deciding whether to trust the machine.

Current concepts

• Remote Attestation explains how evidence is generated and checked across a trust boundary.
• Attestation Quote describes the signed evidence produced by Intel SGX and TDX environments.
• TEE Verifier explains how cryptographic validation and application policy determine whether evidence is accepted.
• Machine-Verifiable Identity describes how an agent or workload identity can be bound to an attested key.
• Trusted Execution Environment introduces the isolated hardware environments used across Automata's attestation stack.

For maintained integration guidance, use the current Automata TEE documentation.