Attack on Intel’s TXT not really critical?

Posted by Ken Y-N on March 20th, 2009 at 02:43pm

I reported before on an exploit affecting TXT, Trusted Execution Technology, but a report from ArsTechnica suggests that it may just be a storm in a teacup.

The summary is that there is an attack, but it’s not easy, and it’s not generalisable. However, as ArsTechnica conclude:

The complexity of computer security is such that seemingly low-level, unimportant flaws can be combined with higher-level problems, and suddenly spawn something far more ugly and massive. The only approach is to lock every gate – particularly when you’re selling a platform based entirely around the idea of “trusted” computing.

I agree (except with the quotations around trusted).

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