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From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 8 Jun 2018 11:50:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] [PATCH v11 13/13] intel_sgx: in-kernel
 launch enclave
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
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On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:32 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
<jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> The Launch Enclave (LE) generates cryptographic launch tokens for user
> enclaves. A launch token is used by EINIT to check whether the enclave
> is authorized to launch or not. By having its own launch enclave, Linux
> has full control of the enclave launch process.
>
> LE is wrapped into a user space proxy program that reads enclave
> signatures outputs launch tokens. The kernel-side glue code is
> implemented by using the user space helper framework.  The IPC between
> the LE proxy program and kernel is handled with an anonymous inode.
>
> The commit also adds enclave signing tool that is used by kbuild to
> measure and sign the launch enclave. CONFIG_INTEL_SGX_SIGNING_KEY points
> to a PEM-file for the 3072-bit RSA key that is used as the LE public key
> pair. The default location is:

It might be nice to use the infrastructure that Alexei added for
bpfilter (the umh_blob stuff) here, which is slated for merging in
this merge window.

--Andy