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Document lack of memory authentication
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Document existence of XOM
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There is no memory authentication, however. So in the event of external memory tampering, the CPU will read back garbled plaintext (effectively, random bytes).
There is no memory authentication, however. So in the event of external memory tampering, the CPU will read back garbled plaintext (effectively, random bytes).
=== XOM (eXecute-Only-Memory) ===
At present it is unknown if/where XOM is used, but the hardware does support it.