
Episode 71: Azure SQL Database and Always Encrypted using Virtualization-Based Security Enclaves
The Azure Security Podcast
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Secure Enclaves - The Lunch Pin of the Whole Thing, Right?
The root of trust for that goes all the way down to the CPU or the virtual CPU. That memory is completely isolated and it's encrypted in use. The actual symmetric keys that are used to encrypt that SGX enclave, I should say, are actually managed by the CPU. So this is incredibly important. This is really the whole lunch pin of the whole thing, right?
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