From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
dave.hansen@intel.com, sean.j.christopherson@intel.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/13] Intel SGX1 support
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:04:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180619200414.GA3143@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180619145943.GC8034@linux.intel.com>
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On Tue 2018-06-19 17:59:43, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:50:12PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 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:
>
> The default permissions for the device are 600.
Good. This does not belong to non-root. But question still remains:
What are some non-evil uses for SGX?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-19 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-08 17:09 [PATCH v11 00/13] Intel SGX1 support Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 01/13] compiler.h, kasan: add __SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ check for __no_kasan_or_inline Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-12 10:50 ` [PATCH v11 00/13] Intel SGX1 support Pavel Machek
2018-06-19 14:59 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-19 20:04 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2018-06-19 20:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-19 21:48 ` Josh Triplett
2018-12-09 20:06 ` Pavel Machek
2018-12-10 7:47 ` Josh Triplett
2018-12-10 8:27 ` Pavel Machek
2018-12-10 23:12 ` Josh Triplett
2018-12-11 18:10 ` Dave Hansen
2018-12-11 18:31 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-19 20:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-21 12:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-06-25 9:44 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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