sanitation@lemmy.todayBanned from community to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 months 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-up136arrow-down14cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up132arrow-down1external-linkAMD 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.comsanitation@lemmy.todayBanned from community to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 months agomessage-square9linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months 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-up2·2 months 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.