July 4th, 2008 at 01:32pm Under General
Well, actually blogging on Interop Japan, as they’ve got photos taken from the event last month up on the official Trusted Computing Group blog.
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July 4th, 2008 at 09:30am Under End to End Trust
At a keynote speech somewhere (the article doesn’t say where!) Ben Chai, the author of the article, heard George Stathakopolous, general manager of security engineering and communications at Microsoft, talk about End to End Trust. The full details of his talk may be found here.
Mr Chai plans to write a three-part series on what he […]
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July 3rd, 2008 at 04:53pm Under Advocacy
After CNET News Blog poo-pooed the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) earlier, now here is Information Week looking on the bright side. It’s basically the same story as before, but by tentatively sitting on the other side of the fence the contents are very much different. For example, here is what they say about the uses […]
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July 3rd, 2008 at 09:20am Under General
This is a slightly off-topic post picked up from the Adventures in system land blog; it talks about mainframe systems, but there is a good quote I’d like to highlight:
However, the single most important thing to understand about building trusted computing systems, isn’t that you provide a 100% secure environment, in which applications aka business […]
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July 2nd, 2008 at 10:52pm Under Advocacy
Brian Berger from Wave Systems and Director of the Trusted Computing Group highlights some of the things you can do today with your Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and ends with the top ten uses for a TPM.
Multi-factor authentication: The TPM becomes one factor in allowing or denying access, so it can be combined with biometrics […]
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July 2nd, 2008 at 04:50pm Under TCG
JapanCorp reports that Fujitsu has become a Promotor Member of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), gaining the right to a seat on the board in the process.
What they hope to bring to the group is described thus:
Fujitsu will strive to satisfy customers’ needs for secure and trusted systems by applying its technologies and know-how to […]
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July 2nd, 2008 at 02:50pm Under TPM
The Windows For Devices web site published an article on a new COM (computer-on-module) image processing and automation-targeted COM Express format Intel Celeron M or Core Duo-equipped board. It comes with Windows Embedded, but also supports Linux. It is available now, but no price was listed.
To keep on topic, it also has a Trusted Platform […]
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July 2nd, 2008 at 08:45am Under Advocacy
The Ask Apache web site recently re-published Richard M Stallman’s “The Right to Read”, a slide down the slippery slope to DRM hell. There is an update from RMS himself which reveals that although he has the right to read the Trusted Computing Group’s specifications, he has not chosen to exercise this right.
I’ll quote the […]
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July 2nd, 2008 at 06:38am Under Advocacy
This recent post on the CNET news blog by Elinor Mills made me raise my eyebrow, mainly due to a number of inaccurate representation of the Trusted Platform Module.
First, there is a quote from Andrew Jaquith, an analyst at Yankee Group, about Palladium Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), Trusted Computing (TC), or something else […]
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June 26th, 2008 at 06:13am Under TPM
A recent announcement/press release from Wave Systems discloses that they have entered into an agreement with Wells Fargo to allow their mortgage division to use Wave’s eSign Transaction Management Suite (eTMS) for electronic disclosure (or eDisclosure) of mortgate-related documents. The benefits to Wells Fargo and their mortgage division is described as follows:
Correspondents using these applications […]
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