xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A security research tool written in C that reprograms AMD Family 16h DRAM controller address translation registers to scramble physical memory mappings. By breaking the DRAM address translations, it exposes protected memory carveouts and unlocks platform primitives such as the Platform Security Processor, System Management Mode, C6 DRAM, and CPU microcode.

Use cases

• unlock the AMD Platform Security Processor on supported hardware
• access protected DRAM regions invisible to the kernel
• research DRAM controller address translation behavior
• dump and modify CPU microcode and SMM memory
• study low-level memory hierarchy security on AMD Family 16h CPUs
• explore hardware security boundaries below the OS

When to choose

• you are doing hardware/firmware security research on AMD Family 16h (Kabini/Jaguar-era) CPUs
• you need to inspect or unlock protected DRAM carveouts like PSP or SMM memory
• you want a documented reference implementation of DRAM address translation attacks

When to avoid

• you have a modern AMD Family 17h+ CPU or non-AMD hardware, as it is untested and likely unsupported
• you need a production security tool rather than a research exploit
• you are not comfortable running bare-metal code that can brick or destabilize your platform

Facets

cli-tool · maturity experimental

security reverse-engineering security hardware developer-tools cli cpp dram-scrambling hardware-exploitation amd firmware-security memory-controller platform-security-processor smm microcode security-research linux

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