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WillPostForFoodyesterday at 10:19 PM3 repliesview on HN

So my PC runs 5% slower because someone could break into my house to get physical access to decrypt memory? OK sure, but not my top concern, and a bad tradeoff for the lost performance. And not only fair, but completely accurate to describe TSME as non-critical for *most* consumer desktops. I'd go as far as to say useless and counter-productive for most, but not all, consumer desktops.


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futuraperditayesterday at 10:48 PM

So you turn it off by default in BIOS and allow those that feel it's useful to them to enable it, and you solve for both sides of the problem.

eYrKEC2today at 12:48 AM

Does it run slower? I'd expect dedicated hardware to do that encryption/decryption, in which case there should be no difference.