Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Intel SGX Driver

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 09:27:49 EST


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