Intel SGX Protects German Electronic Patient Records

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9 points·m1ghtym0··7 comments

What a strange choice... or did intel actually manage to fix SGX?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/hacke...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/06/new-e...

Expect new German healthcare IT designs to look like "a reasonable idea, if you pretend the last 20 years didn't happen yet".

Sounds like something massively over-engineered and sold to the government by a consultancy. Intel loves this because it puts the client's data in a cage which is locked from the inside, and they must keep buying servers with Intel chips no matter what.

Sound like a scheme the German government would be happy to invest into.

Ah yes. Our infamous health care system. Where stupid Bozos swarmed out in masses into doctor's offices and practices with utmost authority,

insisting on how the internal LAN had to be structured to accomodate the needs of the "Konnektor" for the VPN to the "Gematik" cloud.

Having no clue of subnet masks, CIDR or VLAN at all. Just 192.168.x.x bla bla yada yada.

It was like they had been collected from the streets, given a crash course, and a badge. Seen this personally a few times.

Such NEULAND, so much fun!

How exactly are they using SGX here?

Good question. I'm not sure how this is supposed to help keep records secure. Unencrypted copies will probably make it outside the computer. They'll probably be printed.

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