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by goalieca 2238 days ago
Hypothetical, but would intel be better off trying to allocate one of its 70 cores as a dedicated crypto processor with dedicated memory rather than fall down the trap of trying to safely share resources?
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SGX is about making arbitrary general purpose computations encrypted and inaccessible from the rest of the system. Thus it cannot use a crypto chip with fixed set of secure operations.