Apple announced its new suite of memory security improvements from the top of the stack all the way to the bottom, so we dug through what they did and how they did it (performantly).   Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FJwOI2PliU  Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/10/31/apple-mie  Links:  - https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/ - Secure Page Table Monitor and Trusted Execution Monitor: https://support.apple.com/guide/securi...

Security Cryptography Whatever

Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian

Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement

OCT 31, 202556 MIN
Security Cryptography Whatever

Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement

OCT 31, 202556 MIN

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Apple announced its new suite of memory security improvements from the top of the stack all the way to the bottom, so we dug through what they did and how they did it (performantly). Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FJwOI2PliUTranscript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/10/31/apple-mieLinks:- https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/- Secure Page Table Monitor and Trusted Execution Monitor: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/operating-system-integrity-sec8b776536b/1/web/1#secd022396fb- https://security.apple.com/blog/towards-the-next-generation-of-xnu-memory-safety/- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/adopting-type-aware-memory-allocation- https://security.apple.com/blog/what-if-we-had-sockpuppet-in-ios16/- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09272- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/11/first-handset-with-mte-on-market.html- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/adopting-type-aware-memory-allocation- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09272- https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)