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The '''Secure Enclave''' is part of the [[A7]] chip and a basic part of Apples [[Touch ID]] fingerprint technology. Within the Secure Enclave the fingerprint data is stored in an encrypted form which - according to Apple - can only be decrypted by a key available by the Secure Enclave thus making fingerprint data walled off from the rest of A7 Chip and as well as the rest of iOS. The secure enclave itself is a flashable 4MB processor called the secure enclave processor (SEP) as documented in [http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220130308838%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20130308838&RS=DN/20130308838 Apple Patent Application 20130308838]. The technology used is basically [http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzone/index.php ARM's TrustZone/SecurCore].
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The '''Secure Enclave''' is part of the [[A7]] and newer chips used for data protection, [[Touch ID]], and [[Face ID]]. The purpose of the Secure Enclave is to handle keys and other info such as biometrics that is sensitive enough to not be handled by the [[Application Processor|AP]]. It is isolated with a hardware filter so the AP cannot access it. It shares RAM with the AP, but it's portion of the RAM (known as TZ0) is encrypted. The secure enclave itself is a flashable 4MB AKF processor core called the secure enclave processor (SEP) as documented in [http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220130308838%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20130308838&RS=DN/20130308838 Apple Patent Application 20130308838]. The technology used is similar to [http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzone/index.php ARM's TrustZone/SecurCore] but contains proprietary code for Apple KF cores in general and SEP specifically. It is also responsible for generating the UID key on A9 or newer chips that protects user data at rest.
   
 
The SEP is located in the devicetree under IODeviceTree:/arm-io/sep and manged by the AppleSEPManager driver as seen [http://winocm.com/images/ioregdump.txt here]
 
The SEP is located in the devicetree under IODeviceTree:/arm-io/sep and manged by the AppleSEPManager driver as seen [http://winocm.com/images/ioregdump.txt here]

Revision as of 02:00, 4 August 2018

The Secure Enclave is part of the A7 and newer chips used for data protection, Touch ID, and Face ID. The purpose of the Secure Enclave is to handle keys and other info such as biometrics that is sensitive enough to not be handled by the AP. It is isolated with a hardware filter so the AP cannot access it. It shares RAM with the AP, but it's portion of the RAM (known as TZ0) is encrypted. The secure enclave itself is a flashable 4MB AKF processor core called the secure enclave processor (SEP) as documented in Apple Patent Application 20130308838. The technology used is similar to ARM's TrustZone/SecurCore but contains proprietary code for Apple KF cores in general and SEP specifically. It is also responsible for generating the UID key on A9 or newer chips that protects user data at rest.

The SEP is located in the devicetree under IODeviceTree:/arm-io/sep and manged by the AppleSEPManager driver as seen here

SEP OS

The SEP has its own OS called SEP OS and there exists a tool called seputil which is used to communicate with it.

Further References

www.forbes.com