Question What are the requirements for Intel® Total Memory Encryption on 13900K?

Lappeew

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Do I need a motherboard with one of them higher end chipsets like Z790 or it doesn't matter? Does anybody have it enabled in their machine? Thanks.
 

zir_blazer

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You need Firmware support and it is not very common. On Linux you can check by using dmesg | grep tme. Output when working:

x86/tme: enabled by BIOS
x86/tme: Unknown policy is active: 0x2
x86/mktme: No known encryption algorithm is supported: 0x4
x86/mktme: enabled by BIOS
x86/mktme: 15 KeyIDs available