From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/13] Intel SGX1 support
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:04:15 +0200
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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 applica=
tions
> > > to set aside private regions of code and data. The code outside the e=
nclave
> > > is disallowed to access the memory inside the enclave by the CPU acce=
ss
> > > control.  In a way you can think that SGX provides inverted sandbox. =
It
> > > protects the application from a malicious host.
> >=20
> > Do you intend to allow non-root applications to use SGX?
> >=20
> > What are non-evil uses for SGX?
> >=20
> > ...because it is quite useful for some kinds of evil:
>=20
> 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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