>If you need to trust the encryption and trust the hardware itself, it may not be suitable for your environment/ threat model.

Are we reading the same article? It's talking about homorphic encryption, ie. doing mathematical operations on already encrypted data, without being aware of its cleartext contents. It's not related to SGX or other trusted computing technologies.

In FHE the hardware running it don't know the secrets. That's the point.

First you encrypt the data. Then you send it to hardware to compute, get result back and decrypt it.

In theory you only need to trust the hardware to be correct, since it doesn't have the decryption key the worst it can do is give you a wrong answer. In theory.