A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips. Short for Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, TSME encrypts the entire contents stored in memory, making the data useless to physical attackers. Over time, AMD added TSME to lower end processors, including the consumer version of its Ryzen chips, a CPU that costs less than the Pro version. Over...
