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@@ -29,3 +29,33 @@ However, also note that Cargo currently has this limitation:
 
 This prevents patching a repository reference to a different revision in the same repository,
 which makes some SGX-patched packages (such as `serde-sgx` and `serde-json-sgx`) tricky to deal with.
+
+
+## Aligned memory allocation for secret values
+
+In enclave code, all memory allocations for sensitive secret values (such as cryptographic keys)
+must be padded and aligned to protect against certain cache timing side-channel attacks,
+as detailed in the Intel's INTEL-SA-00219  Developer Guidance.
+
+The Rust SGX SDK [provides primitives] (`AlignBox` and `sgx_align_*`) to help implement this guidance,
+but other enclave secrets must also be allocated similarly.
+
+[provides primitives]: https://github.com/apache/incubator-teaclave-sgx-sdk/wiki/Mitigation-of-Intel-SA-00219-in-Rust-SGX#rust-sgx-provided-primitive
+
+In particular, care must be taken to allocate aligned memory _before_ initialising secrets in it,
+rather than initialising secrets in unaligned memory and then moving them to aligned memory.
+
+In this codebase, also see the `AlignedKey` type in the `rtc_tenclave::dh::types` module.
+
+Background:
+
+* [CVE-2019-0117](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0117)
+* [Intel SGX SDK Developer Guidance INTEL-SA-00219](https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/download/intel-sgx-sdk-developer-guidance-intel-sa-00219.html)
+  ([PDF](https://software.intel.com/content/dam/develop/public/us/en/documents/intel-sgx-sdk-developer-guidance-intel-sa-00219.pdf))
+
+
+Rust SGX SDK:
+
+* [v1.1.0 release notes](https://github.com/apache/incubator-teaclave-sgx-sdk/blob/v1.1.0/release_notes.md#rust-sgx-sdk-v110)
+* [Mitigation of Intel SA 00219 in Rust SGX](https://github.com/apache/incubator-teaclave-sgx-sdk/wiki/Mitigation-of-Intel-SA-00219-in-Rust-SGX)
+