Firmware Flaw That Leaks ME Encryption Keys could potentially leak encryption keys stored inside Intel’s Management Engine. The ME is a crucial microchip with code that brokers communications between a processor and external devices and helps with power management as well as starting up a computer’s main processor. Intel has patched a very serious firmware vulnerability, CVE-2018-3655, and issued a series of patches to fix the problem. A Russian researcher found that he could extract two types of non-Intel encryption keys within a type of file system contained in the ME.”]