sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 days agoAMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silen…www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·14 days agoThis Ars article is better. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/users-cry-foul-after-amd-stripped-memory-crypto-from-its-consumer-cpus/ It looks like it’s from a BIOS update. I’m not sure if the microcode packages will do it too. Do you know if you actually had this enabled and working?
minus-squareVenia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days ago Do you know if you actually had this enabled and working? Not really, it’s mostly the interest of how to diagnose this kind of stuff and pre-prepare for it.
This Ars article is better. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/users-cry-foul-after-amd-stripped-memory-crypto-from-its-consumer-cpus/
It looks like it’s from a BIOS update. I’m not sure if the microcode packages will do it too.
Do you know if you actually had this enabled and working?
Not really, it’s mostly the interest of how to diagnose this kind of stuff and pre-prepare for it.