Introduction
As experts who have spent years researching the security of hardware platforms developed by Intel, we acknowledge that Intel’s Converged Security and Management Engine security architecture is highly reliable and was designed by top-notch professionals.
From an architectural perspective, if all its individual components function as intended, it is challenging to find a vulnerability, that, even hypothetically, could lead to irreparable consequences, calling into question the correctness of the decisions made.
Undoubtedly, Intel’s confidence in the reliability of its lowest-level protection, also known as the Root of Trust (RoT), can be attributed to the highest level of privileges granted to the Intel CSME subsystem, including unrestricted access to memory and hardware containing user data. This RoT is based on cryptography, specifically the skilled application of asymmetric and symmetric encryption algorithms, to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the executable code and data of Intel CSME and other platform subsystems.
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