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    3 days ago

    Enabling AES-NI hardware encryption helps mitigate partial-file encryption attacks

    Why

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      probably because the encryption is happening in the hardware, inside the CPU and not in software

      so outside code isn’t being used