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Alex Ionescu wrote a paper [1] on Win10 and SGX.

  > It’s important to realize that for now, only Intel has 
  > the required key to allow an enclave to be launched 
  > without knowing the required CPU-specific enclave key, 
  > and no other (even signed) enclaves can be launched 
  > without it. Once Intel releases a permissive loader, or 
  > if Intel ME vulnerabilities are found to extract the key, 
  > then the real abuse will begin.
  > 
  > Indeed, one area of further research is the Intel SGX 
  > Driver that was released for recent Intel SGX-enabled 
  > Dell Laptops, which contains a le.signed.dll file that is 
  > the Intel Launch Enclave. Additionally, it contains 
  > Intel’s EINITTOKEN that can be used to launch such 
  > enclaves, as well as a service and set of APIs which 
  > appear to make it possible to launch additional enclaves. 
  > Windows 10, on its own, does not seem to ship or support 
  > its own Intel-signed Launch Enclave.
[1] http://www.alex-ionescu.com/Enclave%20Support%20In%20Windows...
parent transpute 10 years ago

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