Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:17:44 +0300 | From | Jarkko Sakkinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions |
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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 > > -- > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
/Jarkko
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