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Last I spoke to Intel representatives, SGX enclaves couldn't be taken out of debug mode without having a contract and signing key from Intel. In other words, t
by nullc 11y ago
Last I spoke to Intel representatives, SGX enclaves couldn't be taken out of debug mode without having a contract and signing key from Intel.
In other words, those amazing applications appear to require Intel to approve the software author. Their keying mechanism allows revocation too.
I hope this changes or that the information I received was in error, but if not then SGX is mostly only useful for DRM. A shame because there really are a lot of productive applications.
- MichaelGG 11y agoWhat's their justification? I've heard that too, but it sounds too stupid to be true. "Here's an amazing feature built in to all our CPUs. Except you can't use it."