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

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2018-01-09 16:27:30, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, but useless against spectre and ability to introduce bit flips
means this is generally useless...

									Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature