#Intel and #AMD trusted enclaves, the #backbone of #network #security, fall to physical attacks
#TrustedEnclaves

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/intel-and-amd-trusted-enclaves-the-backbone-of-network-security-fall-to-physical-attacks/

For those interested in the number of ways Intel's SGX has been broken there is now a fine site:

https://sgx.fail

The introduction to the site reads:

Intel's Software Guard Extension (SGX) promises an isolated execution environment, protected from all software running on the machine. In the past few years, however, SGX has come under heavy fire, threatened by numerous side channel attacks. With Intel repeatedly patching SGX to regain security, we set out to explore the effectiveness of SGX's update mechanisms to prevent attacks on real-world deployments.

More specifically, we survey and categorize various SGX attacks, their applicability to different SGX architectures, as well as the information they leak. We then explored the effectiveness of SGX's update mechanisms in preventing attacks on two real-word deployments, the SECRET network and PowerDVD. In both cases, we show that these vendors are unable to meet the security goals originally envisioned for their products, presumably due to SGX's long update timelines and the complexities of a manual update process. This forces vendors to make a difficult security vs. usability trade off, resulting in security compromises.

#SGX #TrustedEnclaves #SpeculativeExecution #Intel #PowerDVD #