US Patent Issued to Intel on June 3 for "Hardware mechanism to extend MKTME protections to SGX data outside EPC" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,267, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardware mechanism to extend MKTME protections to SGX data outside EPC" was invented by Krystof Zmudzinski (Forest Grove, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a hardware processor to define a linear address (LA) region outside an established address range for a secure enclave, generate, for the linear address (LA) region, a unique encryption key accessible only to the enclave, assign a key identifier to the unique encryption key, store the linear address (LA) region and the unique encryption key in an enclave control structure, and program...