February 17th, 2011 at 02:40pm
Under Storage
Quite frankly, my first thought was "Is that all?" when I read a press release from Seagate talking about them reaching this milestone. My second thought was that there were some weasel words about Opal compliance: Several major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are now qualifying Momentus SEDs that are compliant with the Trusted Computing Group’s [...]
Continue Reading Seagate sells one million self-encrypting drives
Tags: momentus, opal, seagate
By Ken Y-N
January 30th, 2011 at 03:00pm
Under MTM+ TPM
I came across an interesting article in Network World discussing issues surrounding the rumoured iPhone with NFC (RFID) payment chip. Jeff Nigriny, the CEO of identity management and security firm CertiPath, says that: [I]t would make the most sense for device manufacturers and software designers to separate the iPhone’s payment function from other apps using [...]
Continue Reading Network World suggests there should be a TPM in iPhones
Tags: globalplatform, iphone, network world
By Ken Y-N
January 27th, 2011 at 02:04pm
Under TPM
Just a quick note about a paper published by Carnegie Mellon entitled "Trust and Trusted Computing Platforms", technical note CMU/SEI-2011-TN-005. The abstract is as follows: Hardware-based trusted computing platforms are intended to overcome many of the problems of trust that are prominent in computing systems. In this paper, a result of the Software Engineering Institute’s [...]
Continue Reading Carnegie Mellon reports on the TPM
Tags: carnegie-mellon
By Ken Y-N
January 19th, 2011 at 01:34pm
Under TPM
I recently came across an interesting paper entitled "On Using TPM for Secure Identities in Future Home Networks" by five members of the Faculty of Informatics in Technical University, Munich. The abstract is as follow: Security should be integrated into future networks from the beginning, not as an extension. Secure identities and authentication schemes are [...]
Continue Reading On Using TPM for Secure Identities in Future Home Networks
Tags: home
By Ken Y-N
January 19th, 2011 at 03:43am
Under Advocacy
An article on ZeroPaid looks at a recent announcement from Intel, specifically: Intel is also upgrading its Wi-Di technology, which enables users to wirelessly transmit images and video from a PC to a high-definition TV. Users will now be able to stream 1080p content, an improvement from the previous 720p resolution. Users will also be [...]
Continue Reading Slightly confused (confusing?) but interesting article on content protection
Tags: drm, intel, zeropaid
By Ken Y-N
January 4th, 2011 at 05:44pm
Under Advocacy
ComputerWorld (the Norwegian edition, for some reason!) published a summary of a report by the US International Trade Commission into intellectual property in China. Of interest to the blog is the US government’s view on the Trusted Computing Module, China’s home-grown Trusted Platform Module. One issue is China’s strategy of developing closed, national standards for [...]
Continue Reading US Trade Commission criticises China’s Trusted Computing Module
Tags: china, tcm, usitc
By Ken Y-N
December 29th, 2010 at 05:09pm
Under Advocacy
Here’s a curiously interesting article from a small consulting service that recently attended an EU Trusted Computing Seminar and came away rather impressed by the capabilities of the Trusted Platform Module, or perhaps more by the potential for the company to sell TPM-based consultancy…
Continue Reading Lifecycle Professional Services meets Trusted Computing, likes it
Tags: lifecycle professional services, wave
By Ken Y-N
December 26th, 2010 at 04:47pm
Under MTM+ TCG
In an otherwise very interesting read on the Kevin Townsend blog, an article on anti-virus and anti-spam technology made an all-too-common error of confusing Trusted Computing and Trustworthy Computing, as well as the capabilities of the Trusted Platform Module. The answer might be in Scott Charney’s title: vice president of trustworthy computing. Microsoft, of course, [...]
Continue Reading Confused by Trusted and Trustworthy Computing
Tags: kevin townsend
By Ken Y-N
December 11th, 2010 at 04:55pm
Under TPM
One of the big stories of the last week was Google announcing their pilot program for their Chrome OS-equipped notebook. Some of the things it offers are: it encrypts all data automatically; and it uses a piece of encryption hardware called a trusted computing module to digitally sign components of the operating system and check [...]
Continue Reading Google’s Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook
Tags: chrome, cr-48, google
By Ken Y-N
December 2nd, 2010 at 05:20pm
Under Storage
The Trusted Computing Group official blog published an article by Mike Fratto on managing self-encrypting drives with Wave’s software. It does occasionally read a bit more like an advert than a review, but perhaps that indicates how impressed the reviewer was!
Continue Reading Wave Embassy Trusted Drive Manager
Tags: mike fratto, opal, wave
By Ken Y-N