AMD silently disabled TSME memory encryption on consumer Ryzen chips via a firmware update. The feature still works on Pro CPUs. AMD won't say why.
On an x86 system the BIOS is the first part of the system to become active along with the basic CPU core(s) functionality, or so things used to be until Intel introduced its Management Engine (IME) ...
A security researcher has created a tool to allow the extraction and analysis of AMD's Platform Security Processor firmware. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window ...