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AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Is this different than the ddr5's memory encryption?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think DDR5 has any encryption built in? Maybe you're thinking of the error correction controller that's on the module now? Memory with inline encryption is not very common, and as far as I know, not actually very secure if the CPU/TPM isn't the one holding the encryption key.

[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Right, that was what it was ty