Another month, another way to smash Intel's SGX security. Let's take a closer look at these latest holes... Intel's Software Guard Extensions, known as SGX among friends, consist of a set of instructions for running a secure enclave inside an encrypted memory partition using certain Intel microprocessors. This so-called Trusted Execution Environment is intended to offer more security than is otherwise available to applications …
You might not be the only one thinking long and hard about their reliance on Intel.
The performance hits when applying the fixes to these vunerabilities can't have gone unnoticed at Apple HQ. This sort of stuff really makes you want to think again about your CPU choice going forward.
Is there no end to the crappyness in the current Intel CPU architecture?
Perhaps we are getting to the point where it is time to say goodbye to X86?
It is reminding me of that other product that had patch after patch after patch. ie. Flash.
It seemingly still won't die but there comes a point where it needs to be put out of its misery. We might be getting close point to that with Intel CPU's.
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