Dissecting the AMD Platform Security Processor

The AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) is a security subsystem in AMD CPUs comparable to the Intel ME and was introduced in 2013. It is essential for system startup – in fact, in runs before the main processor is even started – and offers runtime services to the main processor. For this, it has full access to the system memory space (inlcuding MMIO). The PSP runs undocumented, proprietary firmware. This talk presents efforts of investigating what the PSP does and if it’s secure. For the first time, it d