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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions
    On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:00:10PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
    > On Mon 2016-04-25 20:34:07, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
    > > Intel(R) SGX is a set of CPU instructions that can be used by
    > > applications to set aside private regions of code and data. The code
    > > outside the enclave is disallowed to access the memory inside the
    > > enclave by the CPU access control.
    > >
    > > The firmware uses PRMRR registers to reserve an area of physical memory
    > > called Enclave Page Cache (EPC). There is a hardware unit in the
    > > processor called Memory Encryption Engine. The MEE encrypts and decrypts
    > > the EPC pages as they enter and leave the processor package.
    >
    > What are non-evil use cases for this?

    I'm not sure what you mean by non-evil.

    >
    > Pavel
    >
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    /Jarkko

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