Amazon EC2 Instance Attestation

Amazon EC2 Instance Attestation(docs.aws.amazon.com)

9 points by Judson 223 days ago | 1 comment

karmakaze 222 days ago |

Note that physical access and an interposer can be used to decrypt memory. See this other recent story[0].

> They exploit both Intel’s and AMD’s use of deterministic encryption, which produces the same ciphertext each time the same plaintext is encrypted with a given key.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443767

karmakaze 222 days ago |

Note that physical access and an interposer can be used to decrypt memory. See this other recent story[0].

> They exploit both Intel’s and AMD’s use of deterministic encryption, which produces the same ciphertext each time the same plaintext is encrypted with a given key.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443767