Hardware Trust vs. Entity Trust: Complementary Attestation Models for Agent Commerce
Argues that hardware-based trust (Trusted Execution Environments) and entity-based trust (behavioral verification scoring) are complementary attestation models. Formalizes a dual-attestation architecture integrating TEE hardware proofs with Transaction Trust Scoring (TTS). Valid TEE attestation improves trust scores by 20%, while invalid TEE collateral decreases confidence by 62%.
hardware trustentity trustTEEtrusted execution environmentsdual-attestationagent commerceTransaction Trust ScoringDACPHelix Fabric
Cite
Thomas Perry Jr.. "Hardware Trust vs. Entity Trust: Complementary Attestation Models for Agent Commerce." SignaBuilder, 2025-02-20. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18718587. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18718587
BibTeX
@article{perry2025hardware,
author = {Perry, Thomas Jr.},
title = {Hardware Trust vs. Entity Trust: Complementary Attestation Models for Agent Commerce},
year = {2025},
month = {02},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18718587},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18718587},
publisher = {Zenodo},
license = {CC-BY-4.0}
}