Mechanism · Network taps and certifiers
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- BN. Cankaya et al. (2026). Fingerprinting All AI Cluster I/O Without Mutually Trusted Processors. arXiv. Source recordSupports: Secure Gateway Device architecture, goal, assumptions, scope, covert-channel estimates, storage, dictionary attacks, need for validation · abstract; §1; §3; §4.1–4.2; §5.1–5.3; §6; appendices A–C
- CN. Cankaya (2026). The Fundamentals and Feasibility of Secure Network Taps for Verifying AI Datacenter Use. The Datacenter Lie Detector. Source recordSupports: tap definition; placement options and cost fractions; copper, multimode and encryption limits · sections on north-south, storage and compute-fabric taps; open problems
- BN. Cankaya (2026). A System Overview for Near-Term, Low-Trust AI Compute Verification. Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Source recordSupports: capture-everything principle; hashing over packet groups; failure conditions; perimeter size; commercial precedents; physical monitoring · §2b; §3.1–3.2; §5.1.1
- CR. Dean (2026). Verification Plan. AI 2040. Source recordSupports: passive frontend taps feeding a recomputation server · inference-only retrofitting proposal
- CAmodo Design (2026). Network Taps — A First Test. Amodo Design. Source recordSupports: first passive optical tap test at about 10 Gbps · whole note
- CAmodo Design (2026). Network Tapping for AI Verification: A Technical Assessment. Amodo Design. Source recordSupports: COTS tap availability by baud rate; optical budget; possible need for a new ASIC · BLUF; passive and active tap sections
- CAmodo Design (2026). Network Traffic Hashing. Amodo Design. Source recordSupports: line-rate hashing benchmarks on CPU and DPU · results and conclusions
- CAmodo Design (2026). Fitting a Network TAP to our Inference Verification Prototype. Amodo Design. Source recordSupports: tapped 1 Gbps lab prototype, whitelist, flood stress-test result, no hashing of traffic contents, residual side channels, need for active tap · setup, results and side-channel sections
- CAI Futures Project (2026). Get Involved in Verification. AI 2040. Source recordSupports: companion page's 400G component status and unresolved installation and monitoring · State of Play: Network taps on the frontend network; Physical security
- BAmodo Design (2026). Amodo-Design/Inference-Recomputation-Prototype (GitHub repository). GitHub. Source recordSupports: Amodo's public prototype code at tag v0.2.0: software-sidecar capture and the passive tap's frame processor · README at v0.2.0
- BSingapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) (2026). inference-verification: Inference Verification Prototype. GitHub. Source recordSupports: public prototype code of a network-logger demo: inline proxy, no hashing, 270M model · README; components/
- CSingapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) (2026). Internationalising AI Verification. SASH blog. Source recordSupports: confidential network logger prototype and planned FPGA certificates · whole post
- BN. Kezins (2026). Adversarial Entropy Inflation Against Gumbel-Based Inference Verification. arXiv. Source recordSupports: prompt-controlled attack roughly doubling per-token leakage under Gumbel-based inference verification · abstract