Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions

From	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions
Date	2016-04-29 22:20 +0200
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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
> 
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/Jarkko

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Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-29 22:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 17:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions "Dr. Greg Wettstein" <greg@enjellic.com> - 2016-05-03 11:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-05-03 17:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions "Dr. Greg Wettstein" <greg@enjellic.com> - 2016-05-04 11:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-05-04 13:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-06 13:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-05-06 14:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-09 07:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-05-09 08:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-09 11:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions "Dr. Greg Wettstein" <greg@enjellic.com> - 2016-05-12 11:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-05-09 09:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-09 11:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions "Dr. Greg Wettstein" <greg@enjellic.com> - 2016-05-08 12:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-05-09 03:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-06 01:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-05-06 09:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-06 13:30 +0200

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