[vbox-dev] Intel SGX - Software Guard Extensions. How is it gonna affect virtualization?

Alexey Eromenko al4321 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 05:26:23 GMT 2017


Hi all.

New Intel CPUs since Skylake have added a new significant feature. SGX.

https://github.com/ayeks/SGX-hardware

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions

If I understand the implications correctly, it means that VMs may become
invisible from the host, even for rootkit kernel-space viruses.

-Alexey "Technologov"
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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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