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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 42/43] virt: sevguest: Add support to derive key
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On 2/8/22 1:56 AM, Dov Murik wrote:
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>
> Just to be clear, I didn't mean necessarily "leak the key to the
> untrusted host" (even if a page is converted back from private to
> shared, it is encrypted, so host can't read its contents). But even
> *inside* the guest, when dealing with sensitive data like keys, we
> should minimize the amount of copies that float around (I assume this is
> the reason for most of the uses of memzero_explicit() in the kernel).
>

Yap, I agree with your point and will keep the memzero_explicit().

-Brijesh

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