About
What this is
This is a reference site about Trusted Execution Environments — not
an organization. “tee.foundation” is a domain name chosen for the topic,
in the same .foundation style as other single-topic reference sites in
this small network (see below) — it isn’t the name of an institution, and
nothing on this site should be read as one.
Why it exists
TEEs sit in an unusual spot for a site otherwise built around cryptographic primitives: the underlying security guarantee is hardware, not math, and that’s a real difference worth stating plainly rather than glossing over — see what a TEE is. Most explanations either wave at “secure enclaves” without saying what can and can’t actually be verified, or dive into vendor-specific implementation details without ever letting you compute anything yourself. This site tries to close that gap: it computes the real, verifiable part — attestation — live in your browser, draws an explicit, honest line around the part that physically can’t be computed there, and treats the real attacks against this hardware (Foreshadow, Plundervolt) as core history, not a footnote.
Every historical claim and citation on this site is sourced to a specific paper, CVE record, or official vendor documentation (see History and Further reading); nothing is stated from memory without a source. The interactive demo computes real values in your browser — see Interactive and Code — nothing is mocked or precomputed. The one exception, clearly and repeatedly labeled as such, is the isolation diagram on Interactive: an illustration, not a computation, because real memory isolation cannot be computed in a browser at all.
Part of a small network of reference sites
This site shares its design and editorial approach with a small, growing set of independent reference sites on specific cryptographic primitives: Pedersen Commitments, on Torben Pedersen’s commitment scheme, Garbled Circuits, on Yao’s garbled circuits, VDF, on Verifiable Delay Functions, and zkSNARK, on zk-SNARKs. Each covers one topic; none of them is an organization, and they aren’t affiliated with each other beyond sharing a template. This is the one site in the network built on a hardware trust assumption rather than a mathematical one — see what a TEE is for that contrast stated in full.
Who maintains this
This is an independent educational project maintained by one person, with public source and open contributions (see below). It is not affiliated with Intel, ARM, AMD, any of the Foreshadow or Plundervolt research teams or their institutions (KU Leuven, Technion, University of Michigan, University of Adelaide, CSIRO’s Data61, University of Birmingham, imec-DistriNet, Graz University of Technology), or any other organization whose work it cites and links to.
Proposing a correction or addition
The site’s source is public on GitHub at github.com/Qubitpower/tee-foundation. If you spot an error — a wrong date, a broken link, a mistake in the demo — please open an issue or a pull request there.