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Re:Keeping Memory Contents Secret by pilif on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:28AM (#21627896)
It's about providing some defense against buggy and/or untrusted kernel driver modules maintained out-of-tree.

An exploit in your closed-source nvidia graphics driver should not get access to your private keys.

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Re:Keeping Memory Contents Secret by jstanley on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:58AM (#21628125)
But it still will do if the nvidia graphics driver can override the code of your process, even if the nvidia graphics driver can't directly read the protected area of memory.
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