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Joel_Mckayyesterday at 5:35 PM0 repliesview on HN

The memory areas would appear as ciphertext to other processes/unprivileged-cores in most cases even when hardware has glitched up. If you are asking how they specifically implemented the mmu <-> unreachable key handling outside the OS, that information was never public if I recall.

I've often pondered how it was really implemented too. Best of luck. =3

"Why Multi-Threaded Code Can Sometimes Misbehave (Weak Memory Concurrency)" (Computerphile)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3hvLz717zM