On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 05:27:48PM +0200, Jethro Beekman wrote: > On 2020-04-21 23:52, 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. > > > > There is a new hardware unit in the processor called Memory Encryption > > Engine (MEE) starting from the Skylake microacrhitecture. BIOS can define > > one or many MEE regions that can hold enclave data by configuring them with > > PRMRR registers. > > > > The MEE automatically encrypts the data leaving the processor package to > > the MEE regions. The data is encrypted using a random key whose life-time > > is exactly one power cycle. > > > > The current implementation requires that the firmware sets > > IA32_SGXLEPUBKEYHASH* MSRs as writable so that ultimately the kernel can > > decide what enclaves it wants run. The implementation does not create > > any bottlenecks to support read-only MSRs later on. > > > > You can tell if your CPU supports SGX by looking into /proc/cpuinfo: > > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep sgx > > Let's merge this. So can I tag reviewed-by's? /Jarkko
