[PATCH v32 12/21] x86/sgx: Add provisioning
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com
Tue Jun 16 20:03:40 UTC 2020
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:55:11PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 09:09:49PM +0100, Darren Kenny wrote:
> > TYPO: s/devilering/delivering/?
>
> I decided to rewrite the whole thing:
>
> x86/sgx: Allow a limited use of ATTRIBUTE.PROVISIONKEY for attestation
>
> Provisioning Certification Enclave (PCE), the root of trust for other
> enclaves, generates a signing key from a fused key called Provisioning
> Certification Key. PCE can then use this key to certify an attestation key
> of a QE, e.g. we get the chain of trust down to the hardware if the Intel
> signed PCE is used.
>
> To use the needed keys, ATTRIBUTE.PROVISIONKEY is required but should be
> only allowed for those who actually need it so that only the trusted
> parties can certify QE's.
>
> Obviously the attestation service should know the public key of the used
> PCE and that way detect illegit attestation, but whitelisting the legit
> users still adds an additional layer of defence.
>
> Add new device file called /dev/sgx/provision. The sole purpose of this
> file is to provide file descriptors that act as privilege tokens to allow
> to build enclaves with ATTRIBUTE.PROVISIONKEY set. A new ioctl called
> SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_SET_ATTRIBUTE is used to assign this token to an enclave.
I also refined Documentation/x86/sgx.rst based on this in my tree [*].
[*] https://github.com/jsakkine-intel/linux-sgx.git
/Jarkko
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