Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:00:10 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions |
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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?
Pavel
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