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Re:Keeping Memory Contents Secret by mike_hock on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:31PM (#21631832)
> Somehow, Bottomley suggested, the kernel should make the best choice it can for how to protect secret memory

Security can't be a best-effort platform-dependent QoI issue.

What could work would be several tiers with certain minimum guarantees that will either be fulfilled 100% or EOPNOTSUPP.

If a developer doesn't know what level of security they need or want, the feature is not for them.

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