Introduction to Intel® Software Guard Extension

Yale Computer Engineering Seminar Series 

Ittai Anati
Senior Principal Engineer (Intel Corporation)
Introduction to Intel® Software Guard Extension

Abstract: Protecting user and 3rd party secrets (such as keys or passwords) on a general purpose processor has been an ongoing challenge. Traditionally, solutions would trust privileged software (kernel or a security hypervisor) to protect these secrets. Intel® Software Guard Extension (SGX), implemented on Intel's 6th generation CoreTM CPU, takes a different approach by allowing an application to instantiate a protected container, referred to as an enclave, which is a protected area in the application's address space, which provides confidentiality and integrity protection to code, data, and stack from any software not resident in the enclave, including privileged malware. The introductory talk covers the motivation for Intel® SGX, describes the main components of the architecture, and show cases a potential usage.

Bio: Ittai Anati is a senior principal engineer at Intel Corporation. He works at the processor architecture group, focusing on security. In his latest role, Ittai was the lead architect for integrating Intel's Software Guard Exte

Host: Prof. Jakub Szefer, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yale University

10:00 am
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 
Becton Seminar Room
15 Prospect Street, Room MC035