I was wondering why you asked.  I expected that you could and would test
it.  But that behavior is counter-intuitive, and should certainly be
documented in the PoOp.


sas

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> In my tests, the key specified in R1 must exactly match. Placing 0 in R1
> only
> helps for key0 storage.
>
> There is no way to use MVCDK without knowing the exact key of the target.
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 13:51:25 -0500 Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> :>On 7 February 2017 at 12:03, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]
> >
> :>wrote:
>
> :>> POPs is not clear as to whether R1=0 will allow access to all keys. It
> does
> :>> seem logical, but is it true?
>
>
> :>Although it perhaps doesn't say so explicitly in the descriptions for
> :>MVCSK/MVCDK, I think it is completely clear from the use in those
> :>instruction definitions (and others) of the phrase "access key", when
> read
> :>with the description of Key-Controlled Protection in Chapter 3. Storage,
> :>which uses the same phrase, and says "The keys are said to match when the
> :>four access-control bits of the storage key are equal to the access key,
> or
> :>when the access key is zero."
>
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