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Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack

Oxide and Friends · 4 Apr 2026 · 1h 26m · Episode 7

What this episode covers

Oxide colleagues Andrew Stone and Finch Foner, alongside founders Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, explain the design and verification of Trust Quorum, the distributed system ensuring the Oxide rack's internal trust. They detail the transition from a 'low rent' initial implementation to a robust protocol using Shamir secret sharing, secure channels, and remote attestation to protect against physical theft. The team discusses overcoming engineering hurdles, including ZFS key rotation via Lua channel programs and using AI tools like Claude to navigate the complex Omicron codebase.

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companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Oxide
Products
Trust Quorum, Omicron
Chips
NXP LPC55S69
Tools
SPDM, TLS, ZFS, Claude, TLA+
Also
Shamir secret sharing

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