FYI: AMD Epyc (server CPUs) comes with low-level per-VM DRAM Encryption / isolation support

[Foppe de Haan]

Too bad it's (probably) not coming to the desktop, but interesting nonetheless:

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7000-series-key-security-virtualization-performance-features/

[Foppe de Haan]

seems it's also available for Ryzen CPUs: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Secure-Memory-Encryption
(I haven't time at the moment to look whether it requires you to use the PSP/TPM or not.)

[Tai...@gmx.com]

On 06/21/2017 12:47 PM, Foppe de Haan wrote:

> seems it's also available for Ryzen CPUs: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Secure-Memory-Encryption
> (I haven't time at the moment to look whether it requires you to use the PSP/TPM or not.)

It is a PSP feature and designed for DRM, the hollywood studios make it
or sgx mandatory to play 4K blurays.
It isn't a good thing.