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October 24-26, 2018 - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Thursday, October 25 • 11:00 - 11:30
Intel SGX Virtualization on Linux and KVM - Sean Christopherson, Intel

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Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) provides new hardware-based capabilities to software developers to protect an application's secrets. SGX allows for the creation of a trusted environment without drawing any dependencies on the integrity of code elsewhere in the software stack, which in modern cloud environments may be millions of lines of code across the application, kernel and VMM.

This talk will provide a brief overview of SGX and its (nefarious) history with respect to Linux, followed by an in-depth analysis of the design and status of SGX virtualization support in KVM.
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Sean Christopherson

Software Engineer, Intel
Sean is recent convert to Linux and KVM, having spent the first 10+ years of his career developing Intel-internal software used to validate the functional behavior of Intel processors.Sean's current foci are enabling Intel features in KVM and the never-ending saga of upstreaming SGX... Read More →

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Thursday October 25, 2018 11:00 - 11:30
Sidlaw Auditorium
  KVM Forum Track 1