Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
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slashdot.orgUsers cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips. Short for Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, TSME encrypts the entire contents stored in memory, making the data useless to physical attackers. Over time, AMD added TSME to lower-end processors, including the consumer version of its Ryzen chips, a…
AMD is back at the center of the controversy after something really hard to explain is revealed, as the company blocks TSME, a memory encryption function that has been present in consumer computers for years, now appears as enableable in BIOS, but does not really get turned on in the hardware. The setting remains there, the user can mark it as Enabled, the system starts normally, but neither Linux nor Windows detects encrypted memory and interna…
AMD's quiet removal of TSME Transparent Secure Memory Encryption technology from its consumer processors has sparked discontent among loyal users.
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