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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 00/11] Intel SGX Driver
On Tue 2018-01-09 16:27:30, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:17:24PM +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> > So how does this protect against the MELTDOWN attack (CVE-2017-5754)
> > and the MELTATOMBOMBA4 worm which uses this exploit?
> >
> > Ced
>
> Everything going out of L1 gets encrypted. This is done to defend
> against peripheral like adversaries and should work also against
> meltdown.

Yeah, but useless against spectre and ability to introduce bit flips
means this is generally useless...

Pavel
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