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by solidasparagus 2558 days ago
Golem was cool, but I don't understand their strategy now that secure enclaves have been shown to be vulnerable to side-channel attacks.

Secure enclaves feel like bait to build systems that are overly reliant on questionable hardware.

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I haven't followed Golem or processor news closely, but I assume a future generation of processors will fix the side-channel attacks (either in general or at least just for secure enclaves), so I think it still makes a lot of sense to build something for secure enclaves for the future.
I don't disagree, but side-channel attacks have shown that hardware security isn't guaranteed and, maybe more importantly, there are unbelievably painful to patch.