Re:Securing Memory at EPYC Scale
by eqvinox on Saturday February 29, 2020 @08:03AM
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> although if there's no real performance hit, you may as well just enable it
Even if it is no-cost performance wise, it still costs energy, which translates to heat and CO2.
> protect against extremely sophisticated attackers
I agree, and I'm very doubtful whether any attacker with this level of sophistication and access (i.e. physical to the DIMMs) won't have quite a few other venues of attack that are still viable.
Even if it is no-cost performance wise, it still costs energy, which translates to heat and CO2.
> protect against extremely sophisticated attackers
I agree, and I'm very doubtful whether any attacker with this level of sophistication and access (i.e. physical to the DIMMs) won't have quite a few other venues of attack that are still viable.