Its real origins, however, are not so pure. The Hexagram. The so-called Star of David is essentially a hexagram, nothing more, nothing less. There is no Biblical or Jewish evidence that traces this ancient occult symbol with king David of Israel.
At its root, IntelÂ® SGX is a set of new CPU instructions that can be used by applications to set aside private regions of code and data. But looking at the technology upward from the instructions is analogous to trying to describe an animal by examining its DNA chain.
In this short post I will try to uplevel things a bit by outlining the objectives that guided the design of IntelÂ® SGX and provide some more detail on two of the objectives. In future posts, I will dive deeper into the remaining objectives and review some of our experiences using IntelÂ® SGX to protect various software applications. Much of the motivation for IntelÂ® SGX can be summarized in the following eight objectives: 1  Allow application developers to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access or modification by rogue software running at higher privilege levels.