September 27th, 2010 at 03:55pm Under General
There was a quite amusing article from Ellen Messmer of Network World, who attended the NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition at Florida as a member of the press, and although she was only allowed to attend basically one of the three days, she managed to get a ticket to an evening party, only to [...]
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September 27th, 2010 at 03:49pm Under General
There was a bunch of posts to the TCG official blog regarding the recent NSA Trusted Computing Conference held in Orlando, Florida. Here is a recap: In the Exhibit Area TCG In Action part 1 and part 2 Day 2 of TCG in Action Finally, a panel discussion recap I wish I could have found [...]
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September 15th, 2010 at 03:48pm Under General
Here’s an interesting press release announcement from Intertrust entitled Intertrust Introduces New Technology for Protecting Secrets, which describes an implementation of their Sushi Marlin client SDK. STMicroelectronics are supplying the hardware side of secure decoder chips, to realise the following: Marlin protects both operator and content provider content during delivery and this protection is ensured [...]
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Tags: actvila, drm, intertrust, marlin, sockeye, stmicroelectronics
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August 31st, 2010 at 04:42pm Under General
David Lacey’s IT Security Blog examined the Intel buy-out of McAfee in detail, but he doesn’t see the sense in it. He paraphrases Intel’s statements on the buy-out with this: In fact the real motivation behind the deal is an initiative to embed more security in hardware. Intel confidently believes that McAfee’s security technology will [...]
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August 31st, 2010 at 04:28pm Under General
Kevin Townsend had a bit of a rant on his blog about McAfee being bought by Intel, a matter which has been covered both here and elsewhere, but I did enjoy the tie in with Cameron Diaz, so it was too good a headline to miss out on. He makes this point: Trusted computing is [...]
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August 24th, 2010 at 04:16pm Under General
The big news in the Trusted Computing and security world last week was Intel buying McAfee for 7.68 billion dollars. Both companies are members of the Trusted Computing Group, with Intel being a promoter, and from the press release, one of the claimed benefits to Intel of the acquisition is this: Acquisition enables a combination [...]
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August 20th, 2010 at 03:07pm Under General
I’m sure I’ve mentioned this company before, but I can’t find the story again! Regardless, it’s an interesting development that deserves not just a first but also a second mention. Symbio Technologies have released a new version of their Symbiont Boot Stick, a USB memory stick containing a protected trusted environment that can access a [...]
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June 8th, 2010 at 03:47pm Under General
I see a posting from Marco Casassa Mont, an HP employee, on a vacancy at HP Labs Bristol (or Princeton). The desirable qualifications are: A PhD in a discipline relevant to information security. Experience of security management in large organisations. Deep knowledge of at least one area of significance to security management, e.g. network security, [...]
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June 7th, 2010 at 02:36pm Under General
This recent press release is not directly TPM-related (although who knows what the future holds), but Intertrust is always a company I’m interested in. They have teamed up with the all too appropriately-initialled CCTV to develop a DRM protection system for high-definition video. The China DRM (Digital Rights Management) Forum is also in on the [...]
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May 11th, 2010 at 02:44pm Under General
The website DefenseTech had an article summarising the latest attempts to build a Secure (and by implication Trusted) Operating System. China, Australia, the European Union and the USA’s best are described in outline; to me the one of most interest is selL4, Secure L4, as it is a real product and is closely related to [...]
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Tags: defensetech, sel4
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