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Good point. Although memory encryption is much more useful if applied at the CPU rather than the memory controler (which would need a way to turn encryption off for DMA regions, since the memory controller doesn't know the key), there's no actual reason why you couldn't do it in the memory controller, if you trust all the hardware with DMA access, or (more plausibly) trust the memory controller to limit that access properly.


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