After Years Of Work With 40+ Revisions, Intel SGX Looks Like It Will Land In Linux 5.11

[phoronix]

Phoronix: After Years Of Work With 40+ Revisions, Intel SGX Looks Like It Will Land In Linux 5.11

Assuming Linus Torvalds has no last minute objections, the long-in-development Intel SGX support will be merged into the mainline Linux kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-SGX-Linux-5.11

[tildearrow]

I can't believe it... you just can't stop beating the dead horse...

Typo:

Intel Sotware Guard Extensions has been supported since Skylake

[Hibbelharry]

As far as I know SGX is still a dream come true for malware authors. Now also supported in linux, yay!

https://www.theregister.com/2019/02/12/intel_sgx_hacked/

[jntesteves]

Why would I want encrypted uninspectable code running on my computer? This is not a security extension, it's purely for DRM. I don't want it working on my Kernel.