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The era of AI agents is disrupting the benefits of security by obscurity for Rowhammer defenses. While industry relies on secrecy as a defense layer for Rowhammer mitigations, it is unclear whether obscurity will continue to provide a measurable security benefit. This paper puts forward an agentic framework to evaluate the benefits of obscurity. We evaluate seven underprovisioned Rowhammer defenses under whitebox, graybox, and blackbox threat models,
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