Data in use

Threats to data in use can come in the form of cold boot attacks, malicious hardware devices, rootkits and bootkits.

This work marks the first full memory encryption implementation on a mobile general-purpose commodity processor.

The system provides both confidentiality and integrity protections of code and data which are encrypted everywhere outside the CPU boundary.

[5] Intel has promised to deliver its Total Memory Encryption (TME) feature in an upcoming CPU.

Intel revealed an architecture combining software and CPU hardware in technical papers published in 2013.