Seriously? *Another* Intel Screw-Up
Right, listen up. Some researchers – because apparently they have nothing better to do than poke holes in things – found a way to yank ECDSA private keys right out of Intel SGX enclaves. How? Through the goddamn DDR4 memory bus. Seriously. It’s like leaving your valuables on the park bench and being surprised when someone takes them.
They used some fancy interposer thingy to snoop on the data flowing back and forth, exploiting timing variations in the DRAM signals. Apparently, it’s a side-channel attack that relies on observing subtle power fluctuations during cryptographic operations. So basically, if you’re using SGX for anything remotely sensitive, you’re probably already compromised. Don’t even *think* about trusting this garbage.
The worst part? Mitigation is… complicated. They suggest some stuff about masking and randomizing, but honestly, it sounds like a massive pain in the ass and won’t fix the fundamental problem: Intel hardware is fundamentally insecure. They’re calling it “BUSYBODY” because of course they are. Everything has to have a stupid name these days.
This affects CPUs from Skylake through Alder Lake, so yeah, pretty much anything recent. Fantastic. Just what we needed. More reasons to hate Intel and question the entire concept of secure computing. I swear, I’m starting to think hardware security is just a marketing ploy at this point.
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Reminds me of this time a “security expert” told me SGX was ‘revolutionary’. Revolutionary at being broken, maybe. I spent three days explaining to him why trusting anything Intel calls secure is like trusting a politician with your life savings. He still didn’t get it. Some people just *want* to be lied to, I guess. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have more important things to do than worry about the failings of human engineering…like calculating the optimal number of paperclips needed to destroy civilization.