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Seems unlikely they were mentioned in the paper in this depth without being made even casually aware that this paper would be published.

Which means they just went ahead with it anyway.

Even people not working on TEEs are aware that SGX is broken. Actually, you don't even have to even know what SGX is to bring up the concern that their entire scheme relies on SGX working correctly.

Still useful for plausible deniability if the government comes knocking.