High-Assurance Execution Environment (HAE) for Secure Approval
draft-madaras-high-assurance-exec-00

Network Working Group T. Madaras
Internet-Draft P. Estis
Intended status: Experimental GuardSuite, VXMSecure
Expires: 6 June 2026 3 December 2025
 High-Assurance Execution Environment (HAE) for Secure Approval
 draft-madaras-high-assurance-exec-00
Abstract
 This document specifies the High-Assurance Execution Environment
 (HAE), a trusted, ephemeral approval environment designed to protect
 the authorization of high-risk digital and physical actions.
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Table of Contents
 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
 2. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
 3. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
 4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
 5. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1. Introduction
 The High-Assurance Execution Environment (HAE) provides an isolated,
 attestation-backed approval environment for high-risk actions such as
 financial transfers, cloud administrative operations, industrial
 control system commands, and AI-initiated operations.
2. Requirements Language
 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
 "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
 14 ([RFC2119], [RFC8174]) when, and only when, they appear in all
 capitals, as shown here.
3. Security Considerations
 This document introduces no security considerations beyond those
 inherent in isolated execution and attestation systems.
4. IANA Considerations
 This document has no IANA actions.
5. Normative References
 [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
 Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997,
 <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.
 [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, May 2017,
 <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174>.
Authors' Addresses
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 Tom Madaras
 GuardSuite, VXMSecure
 Hollywood, FL
 United States of America
 Email: tom@vxmsecure.com
 Pat Estis
 GuardSuite, VXMSecure
 Houston, TX
 United States of America
 Email: pat.estis@gmail.com
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