Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs

As Ars reported last week, AMD stripped the protection, known as TSME, from consumer Ryzen processors. Short for Transparent ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between Conventional Memory Protection and CHERI?

How memory safety issues can expose you to very high cybersecurity damage How conventional memory protection leaves plenty of vulnerability. How CHERI can rigorously prevent some of the worst memory ...

Users 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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Importance Of Memory Encryption For Protecting Data In Use

Nowadays, as SoC (System-on-a-Chip) systems become more and more complex, security functions must grow accordingly to protect the semiconductor devices themselves and the sensitive information ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Memory-Based Cyberattacks Become More Complex, Difficult To Detect

Memories are becoming entry points for cyber attacks, raising concerns about system-level security because memories are nearly ubiquitous in electronics and breaches are difficult to detect. There is ...