February 5th, 2010 at 03:12pm Under TPM
The big news of the last week in the Trusted Computing world has been an announcement of an attack on a TPM. The full article is very interesting to see how the attack took place.
The Trusted Computing Group has also published their opinion on the attack, which highlights that nothing is ever 100% secure, but [...]
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Tags: black hat
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February 4th, 2010 at 03:25pm Under Advocacy
With the announcement of Apple’s iPad, the outpouring of hate has been quite something to behold, with, unfortunately, trusted computing taking a lot of collateral damage from the flames. Here is a summary of some of the posts that I have come across:
genomicon: Against The White Cliffs of NeoPalladium: Apple are even worse than Microsoft [...]
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February 4th, 2010 at 02:46pm Under Virtualisation
L4 and its variants is a popular microkernel that can be found in many places, including even right at the bottom of Google’s Android system. So, I was interested to read about a formal proof for seL4, after five years of work by Open Kernel Labs and NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre [...]
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Tags: open kernel labs, sel4
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February 3rd, 2010 at 03:25pm Under General
The Trusted Computer Group will be hosting a seminar at the RSA Conference 2010 in the Moscone Centre in San Francisco on Monday the 1st of March. It is entitled "Come Participate in the Industry’s First International Security Playground!", and you get to meet all the usual suspects from TCG member companies.
Furthermore, on the next [...]
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Tags: rsa conference
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February 2nd, 2010 at 02:45pm Under General
I recently came across a new web site at cryptopatents.org, with the tag line "A blog about the intersection between cryptography, technology and patents." The specific Trusted Computing-related patent that popped up was one from IBM.
It looks like an interesting blog, and I’ve added it to my reader. Patents are an area I’d love to [...]
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Tags: cryptopatents, patent
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January 19th, 2010 at 04:10pm Under Advocacy
The official Trusted Computing Group blog had a summary post setting the tone for the year, looking at whether this year will be the year Trusted Computing hits the mainstream.
As highlighted, Full Disk Encryption is undoubtedly going to big this year, and the Greater China Regional Forum looks promising. If one considers the recent spat [...]
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Tags: gcrf
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January 18th, 2010 at 03:15pm Under TPM
Here’s a bit of a technically inaccurate but sufficiently curious post from The Register on Apple’s control over the software on the iPhone. The main thrust of the article is about the impending (or otherwise…) release of the iSlate or whatever the rumoured Apple tablet will be called, but they have this comment:
Microsoft once suggested [...]
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January 15th, 2010 at 02:37pm Under General
I read recently about a new operating system being developed in Cornell University entitled Nexus (no relation to Google’s Nexus One!), that seems rather interesting. They are building it on a microkernel architecture to minimise the Trusted Computing Base size, introducing the idea of active attestation and secure memory regions directly supported by the operating [...]
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January 12th, 2010 at 02:48pm Under General
There was a recent interesting press release regarding Wave Systems signing a big deal with a car maker for their EMBASSY Remote Administration Server to manage their laptops worldwide, including the computers containing Trusted Platform Modules and Trusted Computing Group’s Opal specification-based self-encrypting hard drives.
Continue Reading Wave Systems signs $5.7 million licensing deal
Tags: wave systems
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January 5th, 2010 at 02:17pm Under MTM
Welcome to the first post to Blog of Trust for the New Year, and this post brings some interesting news that I’m personally very happy to see.
Nokia have recently had a paper published that was presented at the 2009 ACM workshop on Scalable trusted computing. The title is Trust in a small package: minimized MRTM [...]
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Tags: mtm emulator, nokia
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