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SubjectRe: [PATCH v11 00/13] Intel SGX1 support
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:50:12PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2018-06-08 19:09:35, 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. In a way you can think that SGX provides inverted sandbox. It
> > protects the application from a malicious host.
>
> Do you intend to allow non-root applications to use SGX?
>
> What are non-evil uses for SGX?
>
> ...because it is quite useful for some kinds of evil:

The default permissions for the device are 600.

/Jarkko

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