Re: [PATCH v11] sgx.7: New page with overview of Software Guard eXtensions (SGX)

Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-02-20T20:04:48Z

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 09:19:54PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Jarkko,
>
> On 1/28/22 02:19, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 02:50:56AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> >> Hi Jarkko,
> >>
> >> Please see some comments below.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Alex
> >
> > Thank you. I've addressed all the comments below. However, I feel that
> > /dev/sgx_provision is not properly documented at all. I also think that
> > Reinette's argument for v10 was fair that "remove VEPC" ioctl that QEMU
> > uses should not be left out from the initial patch set.
> >
> > I'm implementing user space that doest attestation, so I rather write a
> > proper description of the attestation, once it is working, rather than add
> > to the number of review rounds.
>
> Fair enough. Please send an v12 with those comments addressed, and I'll
> merge it! (if you miss anything, we'll fix it later, don't worry)

It took me two weeks to do the remote attestation implementation for Enarx
project [*] but I needed to do it before continuing with the man page. I'll
continue with this some time next week. It's not exactly directly attached
to kernel API but I think it is good to bring some context on that.

[*] https://github.com/enarx/enarx/pull/1329

BR, Jarkko