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March 10th, 2010 at 04:09pm
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As well as mixing up Trusted Computing and Trustworthy Computing, the article by Gary Richmond had this bit of badly-written hyperbole that gave me a laugh:
Barely a day goes by when you switch on your computer, plug into the web and come across yet another deranged scheme to restrict freedom in the name of security, [...]
Continue Reading Free Software Magazine lays into trusted computing, Microsoft, and just about everything else
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By Ken Y-N
March 3rd, 2010 at 03:07pm
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Whilst searching for something completely different I happened to come across a YouTube channel from TCGadmin that features a few videos of TCG demonstrations, such as this one:
Continue Reading Trusted Computing the Movie
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By Ken Y-N
February 27th, 2010 at 03:27pm
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Here’s another interesting device from IronKey, this time partnering with Becrypt to implement a portable secure virtual operating system for access to corporate networks for mobile workers. The heart of the device is:
Trusted Client is a cost-effective, secure mobility solution that uses its own hardened and encrypted operating system. It solves the problem of allowing [...]
Continue Reading Becrypt and IronKey partner for secure mobile environments
Tags: becrypt, ironkey
By Ken Y-N
February 26th, 2010 at 03:18pm
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A recent press release from IronKey discussed their Trusted Access for Banking solution, a dongle that plugs into any PC and on entering the correct password (only a password, not multi-factor authentication?), performs a health check of the host PC and launches a virtualised operating system with a secure browser, and also uses one time [...]
Continue Reading Trusted access for corporate banking solution from IronKey
Tags: ironkey, trusted access for banking
By Ken Y-N
February 9th, 2010 at 03:41pm
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Wave Systems recently released a press release describing how they have upgraded their EMBASSY suite of software to handle Intel’s vPro technology. Intel vPro has hardware-embedded secure remote management technology, which Wave exploit to allow the IT department to securely access a PC at any time, updating TPM states and managing Opel-compliant self-encrypting drives, in [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems add support for Intel’s vPro
Tags: intel, wave
By Ken Y-N
February 3rd, 2010 at 03:25pm
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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 [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing Group at RSA Conference 2010
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By Ken Y-N
February 2nd, 2010 at 02:45pm
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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 [...]
Continue Reading cryptopatents.org - interesting new web site
Tags: cryptopatents, patent
By Ken Y-N
January 15th, 2010 at 02:37pm
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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 [...]
Continue Reading Nexus: An New Trustworthy Operating System
Tags: cornell, nexus
By Ken Y-N
January 12th, 2010 at 02:48pm
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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
By Ken Y-N
November 27th, 2009 at 04:17pm
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The Evil Maid attack is an interesting way to hack certain full disk encryption systems, and with Google recently releasing the design documents for their new Chromium (Chrome) OS I was curious to see if an Evil Maid could get nasty with your Chromium-based device.
The good news is no, the Evil Maid cannot attack [...]
Continue Reading Google Chromium (Chrome) OS versus the Evil Maid
Tags: chrome, chromium, evil maid, google
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