Defeat a physical memory-bus wire tap
Switch from deterministic AES-256-ECB memory encryption to AES-256-GCM with fresh per-transfer nonces so a physical wire tap on the RAM bus cannot spot repeated 16-byte blocks.
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Physical memory interposers sit passively between the CPU and DDR5 DIMMs. When identical 16-byte blocks are encrypted deterministically without a fresh nonce, duplicate ciphertext blocks reveal the silhouette. Using a fresh 96-bit AES-256-GCM nonce per transfer makes every 16-byte ciphertext block unique (0 of 16 unique blocks, 0.00 bits/byte entropy).