Re: [PATCH] docs: security: Confidential computing intro and threat model

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On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, Carlos Bilbao wrote:
> On 4/27/23 7:29 AM, Reshetova, Elena wrote:
> > I agree with Dave that I think the goal of this document is not to come up with a
> > fancy name (I am fine with call it anything), but to introduce kernel developers to the 
> > new Linux threat model angle for this-particular-use-case-of-confidential-computing.
> > So that when we submit the hardening mechanisms in the future people are 
> > already familiar with why we need to do this and we don’t have to repeat this story 
> > again and again. 
> 
> Yes! To reiterate, there's two things we definitely wish to do:
> 
> 1. Narrow down the problem: This new document can be specific to CoCo in
>    virtual environments. v2 should be clear about that.

Then rename the document as I already suggested.  If you want to claim
confidential-computing.rst, then IMO such a doc needs to be written something
like the surprisingly good Wikipedia article[*].  Until one of those two things
happens, my NAK stands.

[*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_computing




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