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SGX has been broken by speculative execution bugs, though. Had something to do with people extracting DRM keys, if I recall correctly, not exactly a nation state attack. Since then, SGX has been removed from modern Intel processors (breaking some Blurays and software products for newer chips in the process).

Secure enclave stuff can be used to build a trust relationship if it's designed well, but Apple is the party hosting the service and the one burning the private keys into the chip.



Yep, it was broken a few times but fixed with microcode patches (afaik). It's still a part of the server processors and in wide use already. I'm not saying it's a golden bullet or otherwise infallable, but it sure beats cat /dev/mem by quite some way.




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