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OCAll and ECall Function in Sgx Enclave

SAM_R_2
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Hi,

Is it possible to transfer images/files to an oCall function and call an oCall function in an eCall function?

Please let me know your suggestion and opinion.

-Thanks

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Surenthar_S_Intel
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Hi Sam,

By definition, an OCALL is made from within an ECALL. You enter the enclave with an ECALL. Once in the enclave, if you need to do something like I/O, you then use an OCALL to temporarily exit the enclave to call a function in untrusted space. When that function returns, you are back in the enclave.

A function that you run via an OCALL can even make another ECALL to enter the enclave at a different function (though in the EDL file, you can limit which ECALLs you are allowed to make from within the context of an OCALL).

-Surenthar

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Surenthar_S_Intel
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Hi Sam,

By definition, an OCALL is made from within an ECALL. You enter the enclave with an ECALL. Once in the enclave, if you need to do something like I/O, you then use an OCALL to temporarily exit the enclave to call a function in untrusted space. When that function returns, you are back in the enclave.

A function that you run via an OCALL can even make another ECALL to enter the enclave at a different function (though in the EDL file, you can limit which ECALLs you are allowed to make from within the context of an OCALL).

-Surenthar

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SAM_R_2
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Thanks for your information...

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