Write Deduplication and Hash Mode Encryption for Secure Nonvolatile Main Memory

Abstract

For nonvolatile main memory (NVMM), both security and endurance are important. However, the diffusion property of memory encryption renders existing bit-level write reduction techniques ineffective. This paper proposes DeWrite, a line-level write reduction technique to enhance the endurance and performance of secure NVMM. Moreover, DeWrite leverages a new encryption technique, i.e., hash mode encryption, and exploits opportunistic parallelism between encryption and deduplication operations to efficiently synergize deduplication and encryption for space and time savings.