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September 7th, 2008 at 01:48pm
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In a post about selling kit to a a Federal agency the author mentioned a solution brief he got from Intel on the US Department of Defence creating a secure virtualised environment with the help of General Dynamics. The author was particularly impressed by the acronym for the General Dynamics High Assurance Open Scalable Technology [...]
Continue Reading The GHOST in Intel’s Machine
Tags: general dynamics, ghost, intel, mpc
By Ken Y-N
September 4th, 2008 at 10:46am
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Mark your calendars for an up-and-coming conference at Las Vegas on the 6th and 7th of January 2009, the eighth annual Storage Visions Conference at the Flamingo Hotel.
This conference focuses on digital content creation and distribution, and the Trusted Computing Group will be a bronze sponsor of the event. Some of the topics include:
This year [...]
Continue Reading TCG at Storage Visions 2009
Tags: storage visions
By Ken Y-N
September 3rd, 2008 at 01:36pm
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I saw a recent announcement for Trust 2009, the second international conference on Trusted Computing. Following on from the first Trust conference in March 2008 at Villach, Austria, this time it moves to St. Hugh’s College at Oxford University in the UK, to be held between the 6th and 8th of April 2009.
Some of the [...]
Continue Reading Call for Papers for Trust 2009
Tags: call for papers, trust 2009
By Ken Y-N
September 1st, 2008 at 02:01pm
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I read some news about Nokia striking a deal with Intertrust to use some of their patented technology, specifically related to Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Marlin Digital Rights Management (DRM) and other assorted mobile distributed trusted computing-related technologies.
I did some work with Intertrust a number of years ago and I’ve looked at a few of [...]
Continue Reading Nokia licenses Intertrust patents
Tags: intertrust, nokia, patent
By Ken Y-N
September 1st, 2008 at 01:35pm
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Government Computer News recently took a look at Wave System’s Embassy Remote Administration Server (ERAS). which allows remote administration of systems with Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) installed. It highlights that the US Defense Department, along with other agencies, now require all new PCs to be equipped with one.
ERAS requires a machine running Microsoft Windows Server [...]
Continue Reading Review of Wave’s Embassy Remote Administration Server
Tags: embassy, government computer news, wave
By Ken Y-N
August 26th, 2008 at 01:48pm
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EE Times India recently published a rather interesting article on microkernels and why they are better than they are rated. From the trusted computing point of view, they say:
Reliability, in fact, is one of the microkernels’ greatest assets. The amount of code that must be fully trusted, the trusted computing base (TCB), is dramatically reduced.
They [...]
Continue Reading EE Times India on microkernels
Tags: ee times india, okl4
By Ken Y-N
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:12am
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Wave Systems are never shy when it comes to making press releases; this time they celebrated record revenues in Q2 2008, of nearly two million dollars, thanks to growth in licensing of their software.
However, they still reported a net loss of over 5.5 million dollars, up 16.5% from Q2 2007.
Steven Sprague, the President and CEO [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems’ Q2 earnings up 41%
Tags: intertrust, nokia, wave
By Ken Y-N
August 21st, 2008 at 04:43pm
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A recent press release from Open Kernel Labs on Sony Ericsson using their technology mentions that Sony Ericsson’s new XPERIA X1 will have Open Kernel Lab’s OKL4 operating system, complete with Secure HyperCell Technology which allows secure, segmented executiong within a trusted computing base.
Continue Reading Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA Smartphone and trusted computing base
Tags: okl4, open kernel labls, sony ericsson, xperia
By Ken Y-N
August 6th, 2008 at 05:28pm
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On the MyTriniPhone blog a person called “Pumpkin” from the iPhone development team was quoted as saying the following:
More FUD is spread by this undying rumor of “Palladium” (or TPM) being used fully on Apple’s devices, making it impossible for you “to play online with legit buyers.” This is nothing but uninformed nonsense, and while [...]
Continue Reading No TPM on the iPhone, official!
Tags: iphone, palladium, TPM, trustzone
By Ken Y-N
August 4th, 2008 at 01:56pm
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On the FCW blog I read a post by Mary Mosquera on the federal Chief Information Officers Council’s formation of a committee to investigate issues surrounding information assurance in the Web 2.0 world.
To summarise, they are looking at how to get users to do most of the work for them through social networking, shared document [...]
Continue Reading Federal government to address Web 2.0 security
Tags: federal, web 2.0
By Ken Y-N
