Realistically as an Europeans we have the security threat of backdoored components from Epstein's colleagues at five eyes which are used for mass-surveillance of VMs at European hosters such as Hetzner. And every time you add a configuration option like memory encryption it makes their drive-by mass surveillance a tiny bit more difficult and hopefully easier to detect for the sysadmins at Hetzner.

IMO using the specialized CPU instructions (AES) is not clever because they'd obviously have backdoored that instruction to simply remember all keys that were used.

It's part of a defense-in-depth approach that Europe unfortunately needs as Europeans are considered as foreigners without any human rights by the five eyes community. America and their major tech leaders have made that abundantly clear to Europe, including the hitler salute as cherry on top.

I'm quite sad we have reached this situation, but if one is serious about security these things need to be discussed and if possible implemented.