A few months ago, during my keynote at Black Hat Europe, I was discussing how we should be limiting the amount of trust when building computer systems. Recently, a new technology from Intel has been gaining popularity among both developers and researchers, a technology which promises a big step towards such trust-minimizing systems. I'm talking about Intel SGX, of course.
Intel SGX caught my attention for the first time about 5 years ago, a little while before Intel has officially added information about it to the official Software Developer's Manual. I've written two posts about my thoughts on this (then-upcoming) technology, which were a superposition of both positive and negative feelings.
Over the last 2 years or so, together with my team at ITL, we've been investigating this fascinating technology a bit closer. Today I'd like to share some introductory information on this interesting project we've been working on together with our friends at Golem for several months now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @03:09PM (1 child)
check back after Summer for the code
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday June 16 2018, @03:35PM
Check some obscure link to find out eventually what the hell SGX is.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @03:50PM (2 children)
Is that any safer than Black Hat U.S.A.? Aren't the anti-hacking laws even worse over there? Is it even a good idea for black hatters to congregate? Maybe for the authorities... Anyway, I hope they're working on something important, like circumventing and obsoleting the ISP. They are still the single biggest impediment to the liberated internet.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @09:15PM
If you have research or ideas you want to share, you can do it online, (pseudo)anonymously.
What are you getting by going in-person to these events? Schmoozing and networking with social butterflies? Job offers? Risk of financial ruin and/or prosecution leading to your suicide?
Real antisocial hackers dump it online. No need to take credit or responsibly disclose. Or you can exploit for cash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @12:51AM
The article in question is not "hacking the SGX" and instead is about using it for something good. Intel should be paying them for good PR.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @12:41AM
SGX is super-proprietary and vendor-locked. Nobody sane will base their security-critical applications on it. Even Microsoft doesn't use it for their hardened VM used in Windows 10 Enterprise's security (Windows Defender Credential Guard).
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 17 2018, @02:39AM
Intel are Jews and not to be trusted.