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Unpatchable security flaw in Apple Silicon Macs breaks encryption - 9to5Mac


University researchers have found an unpatchable security flaw in Apple Silicon Macs, which would allow an attacker to break encryption...

University researchers have found an unpatchable security flaw in Apple Silicon Macs, which would allow an attacker to break encryption and get access to cryptographic keys. Not only is it possible for unannounced changes to add DMP functionality to efficiency cores, running cryptographic processes here will also likely increase the time required to complete operations by a nontrivial margin. Apple has so far chosen not to implement protection against the Augury DMP exploit, likely because the performance hit wouldn’t be justified by the very low real of a real-world attack.

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