Intel has fulfilled a promise made in April to open-source a Linux driver for its SGX technology.
SGX – Software Guard Extensions – first landed in 2013, and allows programmers to lock up code and data inside containers enforced by the CPU. The idea is to create an environment to assure people “clouding” their enterprise systems that not even admins in the data centre can spy on what’s going on.
Back in April, Chipzilla promised an SGX SDK for Linux, and a few weeks ago – with so little fuss we overlooked it – it made good over at GitHub.
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