Intel Corporation

Mcafee, Inc.

Hormuzd M Khosravi

David M Durham

Ravi L Sahita

Uday R Savagaonkar

Barry E Huntley

Yasser Rasheed

Men Long

Siddhartha Chhabra

Baiju V Patel

Gideon Gerzon

Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel

Ned M Smith

Travis T Schluessler

Venkat R Gokulrangan

Gilbert A Neiger

Gyan Prakash

Priya Rajagopal

Uri Blumenthal

Alex Nayshtut

Karanvir S Grewal

Saurabh Dadu

Ioannis T Schoinas

Ido Ouziel

Dror Caspi

Selim Aissi

Amy L Santoni

Arie Aharon

Vincent J Zimmer

Carlos V Rozas

Avigdor Dori Eldar

David A Edwards

Divya Naidu Kolar Sunder

Vedvyas Shanbhogue

Rajesh M Sankaran

Igor G Muttik

Vincent Edward Von Bokern

Bassam N Coury

Duncan Glendinning

Ajith K Illendula

Michael Raziel

Edward C Epp

Kapil Sood

Prashant Dewan

Farid Adrangi

Omer Ben-Shalom

Sanjay Bakshi

Manasi Deval

Paritosh Saxena

Nicholas D Triantafillou

Adrian R Pearson

Rajesh Poornachandran

Jesse R Walker

Francis X Mckeen

Aleksander Magi

Vincent R Scarlata

Raghunandan Makaram

Eliezer Tamir

Mahesh S Natu

Narayan Biswal

Wah Yiu Kwong

Russell Jerome Fenger

Jason Martin

Micah James Sheller

Robert W Strong

Hsin-Yuo Liu

John B Vicente

Stephen R Van Doren

Avishay Sharaga

Barnan Das

Eng Hun Ooi

Lokpraveen B Mosur

James T Doyle

Mojtaba Mirashrafi

Mousumi M Hazra

Jacob Doweck

Duane G Quiet

Vivek Paranjape

Peter Munguia

Izoslav Tchigevsky

Simoni Ben-Michael

Mohammad R Haghighat

Michael Berger

Ulhas S Warrier

Baruch Chaikin

Avi Priev

Paul J Thadikaran

Ulf Christian Bjorkengren

David A Lee

Ajay G Gupta

Chai Huat Gan

Uri Kahana

Sherry Chang

Steve J Brown

Anand K Enamandram

Ramya Jayaram Masti

Akshay Ramesh Kadam

Amol Kulkarni

Craig T Owen

Robert A Branch

Steve Orrin

A method of creating a trusted execution domain includes initializing, by a processing device executing a trust domain resource manager (TDRM), a trust domain control structure (TDCS) and a trust domain protected memory (TDPM) associated with a trust domain (TD). The method further includes generating a one-time cryptographic key, assigning the one-time cryptographic key to an available host key id (HKID) in a multi-key total memory encryption (MK-TME) engine, and storing the HKID in the TDCS. The method further includes associating a logical processor to the TD, adding a memory page from an address space of the logical processor to the TDPM, and transferring execution control to the logical processor to execute the TD.

Method and apparatus for trust domain creation and destruction

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a processor to execute instruction(s), wherein the instructions comprise a memory access operation associated with a memory location of a memory. The apparatus further comprises a memory encryption controller to: identify the memory access operation; determine that the memory location is associated with a protected domain, wherein the protected domain is associated with a protected memory region of the memory, and wherein the protected domain is identified from a plurality of protected domains associated with a plurality of protected memory regions of the memory; identify an encryption key associated with the protected domain; perform a cryptography operation on data associated with the memory access operation, wherein the cryptography operation is performed based on the encryption key associated with the protected domain; and return a result of the cryptography operation, wherein the result is to be used for the memory access operation.

Multi-key cryptographic memory protection

Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for scalable multi-key memory encryption are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a core, an encryption unit, and key identification hardware. The core is to write data to and read data from memory regions, each to be identified by a corresponding address. The encryption unit to encrypt data to be written and decrypt data to be read. The key identification hardware is to use a portion of the corresponding address to look up a corresponding key identifier in a key information data structure. The corresponding key identifier is one multiple key identifiers. The corresponding key identifier is to identify which one of multiple encryption keys is to be used to encrypt and decrypt the data.

Scalable multi-key memory encryption

Implementations describe providing secure encryption key management in trust domains. In one implementation, a processing device includes a key ownership table (KOT) that is protected against software access. The processing device further includes a processing core to execute a trust domain resource manager (TDRM) to create a trust domain (TD) and a randomly-generated encryption key corresponding to the TD, the randomly-generated encryption key identified by a guest key identifier (GKID) and protected against software access from at least one of the TDRM or other TDs, the TDRM is to reference the KOT to obtain at least one unassigned host key identifier (HKID) utilized to encrypt a TD memory, the TDRM is to assign the HKID to the TD by marking the HKID in the KOT as assigned, and configure the randomly-generated encryption key on the processing device by associating the randomly-generated encryption key with the HKID.

Secure encryption key management in trust domains

In embodiments detailed herein describe an encryption architecture with fast zero support (e.g., FZ-MKTME) to allow memory encryption and integrity architecture to work efficiently with 3DXP or other far memory memories. In particular, an encryption engine for the purpose of fast zeroing in the far memory controller is detailed along with mechanisms for consistent key programming of this engine. For example, an instruction is detailed which allows software to send keys protected even when the controller is located outside of a system on a chip (SoC), etc.

ISA support for programming hardware over untrusted links

Methods and apparatus for hardware based file/document expiry timer enforcement is disclosed. An example method includes instructing, by executing an instruction with a processor, a trusted execution environment to generate an encryption key and a certificate for a document, the certificate including expiry information for the document, the certificate associated with identification information of the document, and the expiry information indicative of a time period for which the encryption key is valid to decrypt the document; encrypting, by executing an instruction with the processor, the document using the encryption key; transmitting the certificate to a first remote network storage device; and transmitting the document to a second remote network storage device.

Method and apparatus for hardware based file/document expiry timer enforcement

Systems, methods, and apparatuses to implement spatially unique and location independent persistent memory encryption are described. In one embodiment, a system on a chip (SoC) includes at least one persistent range register to indicate a persistent range of memory, an address modifying circuit to check if an address for a memory store request is within the persistent range indicated by the at least one persistent range register, and append a unique identifier value, for a component corresponding to the memory store request for the address, to the address to generate a modified address and output the modified address as an output address when the address is within the persistent range, and output the address as the output address when the address is not within the persistent range, and an encryption engine circuit to generate a ciphertext based on the output address.

Circuitry and methods for spatially unique and location independent persistent memory encryption

An apparatus includes a processor, persistent memory coupled to the processor, and a memory protection logic. The processor may include multiple processing engines. The persistent memory may include a persistent storage portion and a memory expansion portion. The memory protection logic is to: obtain a first ephemeral component associated with the persistent storage portion; generate a persistent key using the first ephemeral component; obtain a second ephemeral component associated with the memory expansion portion; and generate a non-persistent key using the second ephemeral component. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Generating keys for persistent memory

Data integrity logic is executable by a processor to generate a data integrity code using a hardware-based secret. A container manager, executable by the processor, creates a secured container including report generation logic that determines measurements of the secured container, generates a report according to a defined report format, and sends a quote request including the report. The defined report format includes a field to include the measurements and a field to include the data integrity code, and the report format is compatible for consumption by any one of a plurality of different quote creator types.

Flexible container attestation

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a processor to read a data line from memory in response to a read request from a VM. The data line comprises encrypted memory data. The apparatus also comprises a memory encryption circuit in the processor. The memory encryption circuit is to use an address of the read request to select an entry from a P2K table; obtain a key identifier from the selected entry of the P2K table; use the key identifier to select a key for the read request; and use the selected key to decrypt the encrypted memory data into decrypted memory data. The processor is further to make the decrypted memory data available to the VM. The P2K table comprises multiple entries, each comprising (a) a key identifier for a page of memory and (b) an encrypted address for that page of memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

System, apparatus and method for page granular, software controlled multiple key memory encryption

Implementations describe providing isolation in virtualized systems using trust domains. In one implementation, a processing device includes a memory ownership table (MOT) that is access-controlled against software access. The processing device further includes a processing core to execute a trust domain resource manager (TDRM) to manage a trust domain (TD), maintain a trust domain control structure (TDCS) for managing global metadata for each TD, maintain an execution state of the TD in at least one trust domain thread control structure (TD-TCS) that is access-controlled against software accesses, and reference the MOT to obtain at least one key identifier (key ID) corresponding to an encryption key assigned to the TD, the key ID to allow the processing device to decrypt memory pages assigned to the TD responsive to the processing device executing in the context of the TD, the memory pages assigned to the TD encrypted with the encryption key.

Providing isolation in virtualized systems using trust domains

Implementations described provide hardware support for the co-existence of restricted and non-restricted encryption keys on a computing system. Such hardware support may comprise a processor having a core, a hardware register to store a bit range to identify a number of bits, of physical memory addresses, that define key identifiers (IDs) and a partition key ID identifying a boundary between non-restricted and restricted key IDs. The core may allocate at least one of the non-restricted key IDs to a software program, such as a hypervisor. The core may further allocate a restricted key ID to a trust domain whose trust computing base does not comprise the software program. A memory controller coupled to the core may allocate a physical page of a memory to the trust domain, wherein data of the physical page of the memory is to be encrypted with an encryption key associated with the restricted key ID.

Co-existence of trust domain architecture with multi-key total memory encryption technology in servers

Disclosed embodiments relate to trust domain islands with self-contained scope. In one example, a system includes multiple sockets, each including multiple cores, multiple multi-key total memory encryption (MK-TME) circuits, multiple memory controllers, and a trust domain island resource manager (TDIRM) to: initialize a trust domain island (TDI) island control structure (TDICS) associated with a TD island, initialize a trust domain island protected memory (TDIPM) associated with the TD island, identify a host key identifier (HKID) in a key ownership table (KOT), assign the HKID to a cryptographic key and store the HKID in the TDICS, associate one of the plurality of cores with the TD island, add a memory page from an address space of the first core to the TDIPM, and transfer execution control to the first core to execute the TDI, and wherein a number of HKIDs available in the system is increased as the memory mapped to the TD island is decreased.

TDX islands with self-contained scope enabling TDX KeyID scaling

There is disclosed a microprocessor, including: a processing core; and a total memory encryption (TME) engine to provide TME for a first trust domain (TD), and further to: allocate a block of physical memory to the first TD and a first cryptographic key to the first TD; map within an extended page table (EPT) a host physical address (HPA) space to a guest physical address (GPA) space of the TD; create a memory ownership table (MOT) entry for a memory page within the block of physical memory, wherein the MOT table comprises a GPA reverse mapping; encrypt the MOT entry using the first cryptographic key; and append to the MOT entry verification data, wherein the MOT entry verification data enables detection of an attack on the MOT entry.

Cryptographic memory ownership

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Hormuzd M Khosravi