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by vladvasiliu 1524 days ago
> can simply pull out the RAM and grab encryption keys in clear text

Leaving aside the leg work "simply" does here, especially in a coffee shop environment: would AMD's "encrypted memory" help against these kinds of attacks?

I have a laptop with an AMD Zen 3 Pro CPU that has this option in the BIOS and was wondering whether it actually did any good, as opposed to being just some marketing shtick.

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Interesting, I didn't know this was a thing, but after some cursory research it does seem like part of its use case is to stop this attack vector.