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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Intel SGX Driver
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 16:27:30 +0200
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:17:24PM +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> So how does this protect against the MELTDOWN attack (CVE-2017-5754)
> and the MELTATOMBOMBA4 worm which uses this exploit?
> 
> Ced

Everything going out of L1 gets encrypted. This is done to defend
against peripheral like adversaries and should work also against
meltdown.

/Jarkko