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From: "Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 16:16:32 -0000 (UTC)
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Michael S wrote:


snip lots of stuff about encryption alternatives

 
 
> The best, the most secure encryption is an end-to-end encryption.
> Which means application-to-application.
> It's not that other, "piece-wise" encryption types can't be used, but
> if you are serious about privacy you should consider them
> insufficient.


That's fair.  But there are counter arguments like not doing the
encryption on a processor that is also executing arbitrary user code
makes it more immune from side attacks.



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