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It is likely that encryption is tweaked on a per-physical-address basis. So, an attacker with control of the external memory bus cannot e.g. relocate data from one address to another. | It is likely that encryption is tweaked on a per-physical-address basis. So, an attacker with control of the external memory bus cannot e.g. relocate data from one address to another. | ||
There is no memory authentication, however. So in the event of external memory tampering, the CPU will read back garbled plaintext (effectively, random bytes). | |||