Do today's CPUs allow for pinning a small amount of data in cache? Say 16 bytes or whatever is needed for an encryption key? Seems like it would be significantly harder to remove a CPU (especially from a laptop) and that CPUs likely initialize the cache when power is provided. y
That way the key is never in memory, cache size is reduced by a trivial amount, and the key would be significantly harder to recover.
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