TEE-Enhanced Design
TEE provides SuperNet with a robust foundation for ensuring security, privacy, and computational efficiency.
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TEE provides SuperNet with a robust foundation for ensuring security, privacy, and computational efficiency.
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The TEE-enhanced SuperNet model is designed to integrate the trusted execution environment (TEE) into SuperNet’s decentralized autonomous framework. This design ensures data privacy, system integrity, and operational efficiency in distributed AI tasks. Below, the structure, functionality, design plan, and advantages of this model are elaborated in detail.
The TEE-Enhanced SuperNet architecture adopts a multi-layered design, leveraging hardware-based trusted computing modules to isolate sensitive data and task execution. The architecture consists of three core layers:
Each SuperNet intelligent node is equipped with a TEE module, such as Intel SGX (optimized for high-performance tasks), AMD SEV-SNP (ideal for virtualized environments), or ARM TrustZone (suitable for AIoT devices). These modules use hardware encryption to support secure data storage and execution isolation. Within these nodes, the TEE executes Trusted Applications (TA), handling critical tasks like AI model training, distributed consensus verification, and fault recovery. These tasks are secured by Dynamic Memory Isolation, ensuring strict separation of data and computational processes.
The governance layer is powered by the SuperNet Operating System, which coordinates data flows and task distribution among nodes. It integrates a Key Management Module within the TEE for distributed key generation and verification, ensuring secure inter-node communication using TLS 1.3 encryption protocols. Additionally, the governance layer employs Dynamic Attestation Mechanisms to validate the trustworthiness of nodes in real-time.
This layer provides services such as the AI Agent Studio and AI Agent Marketplace. All AI agents and models undergo code and data integrity validation within the TEE before deployment to prevent tampering. Developers can securely adjust model parameters and deploy them through TEE-protected API interfaces, ensuring secure integration and functionality.
Through this three-layered structure, SuperNet achieves complete data isolation and secure execution of core tasks, creating a highly secure and autonomous distributed network.
TEE provides hardware-level Data Isolation Protection, ensuring that AI data storage and processing occur exclusively within the TEE. For instance, in federated learning tasks, local data on each node is encrypted and stored within the TEE, preventing unauthorized external access. Research shows that TEE implementation reduces the risk of sensitive data leakage by approximately 90%, while maintaining high security for distributed AI models.
SuperNet’s consensus protocols (e.g., PoA or PoS) benefit from TEE-based hardware acceleration. The Consensus Verification Module embedded within the TEE processes verification requests at the chip level, reducing latency by 30%-50% compared to software-based solutions. TEE also continuously monitors node behavior, isolating malicious nodes to strengthen the overall protocol robustness and security.
The AI Agent Marketplace operates within the TEE to ensure the integrity of AI agents. Before deployment, each AI agent is verified using the TEE’s Code Integrity Validation mechanism. Transaction data and model parameters are encrypted by the TEE’s key management module, safeguarding against network attacks and unauthorized usage.
SuperNet incorporates multiple TEE technologies:
Intel SGX: Designed for high-performance intelligent nodes, enabling secure AI model training and execution with latency controlled within 10ms.
AMD SEV-SNP: Ideal for virtualized environments, offering Memory Integrity Protection to prevent data replay and malicious remapping attacks. Each virtual machine is assigned a unique key to ensure isolation.
ARM TrustZone: Integrated into low-power AIoT nodes, it handles data transmission and localized computational tasks efficiently.
SuperNet’s TEE modules include a Fault Detection Algorithm to monitor node health in real-time. Upon detecting a faulty node, the system uses the Task Redistribution Module in the governance layer to reassign tasks to healthy nodes. Studies indicate that TEE-enabled dynamic fault recovery improves efficiency by approximately 35% compared to traditional methods.
SuperNet offers TEE-secured public APIs, enabling developers to securely invoke or modify AI models while ensuring their privacy and integrity. The AI Agent Studio, supported by TEE, allows users to design, test, and deploy models without the risk of data leakage during the development process.
Compared to traditional software encryption, TEE delivers hardware-grade security, effectively mitigating side-channel attacks and memory tampering. TEE-enabled encryption mechanisms incur only 10%-15% performance overhead compared to plaintext processing, significantly outperforming homomorphic encryption, which imposes a 100x computation overhead.
Dynamic attestation and key management mechanisms provided by TEE enable SuperNet’s distributed network to autonomously handle task allocation and node validation. TEE-verified nodes enhance overall network trustworthiness, reducing reliance on centralized interventions.
In federated learning scenarios, TEE replaces homomorphic encryption for gradient aggregation, reducing computational latency by 40%-60%. This makes distributed AI model training more efficient while maintaining robust data privacy.
SuperNet leverages TEE to securely handle multi-party data collaboration, such as medical data sharing or financial data analysis, ensuring complete privacy protection.
With TEE integration, smart contracts on SuperNet can execute securely, preventing tampering during execution and ensuring code integrity.
SuperNet uses TEE to encrypt and securely distribute AI models, protecting intellectual property while maintaining the models’ operational security.
