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