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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v11 00/13] Intel SGX1 support
    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:

    https://taesoo.kim/pubs/2017/jang:sgx-bomb.pdf

    Pavel
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