Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions (Intel(R) SGX) is an Intel technology for application developers seeking to protect select code and data from disclosure or modification.

The Linux SGX software stack is comprised of the SGX driver, the SGX SDK, and the SGX Platform Software. The SGX SDK and SGX PSW are hosted in the linux-sgx project.

The linux-sgx-driver project hosts the out-of-tree driver for the Linux SGX software stack, which will be used until the driver upstreaming process is complete.

See License.txt for details.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

• [Intel(R) SGX for Linux* OS][1] project home page on 01.org
• [Intel(R) SGX Programming Reference][2] [1]: https://01.org/intel-softwareguard-extensions [2]: https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/48/88/329298-002.pdf

###Prerequisites

• Ensure that you have the following required operating systems:
  Ubuntu* Desktop-14.04-LTS 64bits
• Ensure that you have the following required hardware:
  6th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor (code named Skylake)
• Configure the system with the SGX hardware enabled option.

###Build the Intel(R) SGX Driver To build Intel SGX driver, change the directory to the driver path and enter the following command:

$ make

You can find the driver isgx.ko generated in the same directory.

###Install the Intel(R) SGX Driver To install the Intel SGX driver, enter the following command with root privilege:

$ sudo make install

###Uninstall the Intel(R) SGX Driver Before uninstall the Intel SGX driver, make sure the aesmd service is stopped. See the topic, Start or Stop aesmd Service, on how to stop the aesmd service.
To uninstall the Intel SGX driver, enter the following commands:

$ sudo /sbin/modprobe -r isgx
$ sudo rm -rf "/lib/modules/"`uname -r`"/kernel/drivers/intel/sgx"
$ sudo /sbin/depmod
$ sudo /bin/sed -i '/^isgx$/d' /etc/modules