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.