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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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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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
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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
By Ken Y-N
October 19th, 2009 at 02:58pm
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This job posting on ElectronicsEngineer.com for a Wireless Systems Engineer-Security in Philadelphia seems interesting. The required skills include: Working knowledge of trusted computing technologies, such as those developed at the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Experience as a representative at standardization organizations such 3GPP, ETSI, IEEE 802.xx, TCG, ITU-T, IETF, or OMA Actually, reading the full [...]
Continue Reading Job in Philadelphia for trusted computing expert
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By Ken Y-N
September 25th, 2009 at 02:10pm
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According to an article on Data Center Knowledge about FedCloud, a new-to-me but in operation for over a year outsourcing of federal government infrastructure to the cloud. It’s also the first time I’ve seen the abbreviation IaaS, infrastructure as a service. Anyway, Amazon Web Services has now partnered with Apptis and are providing the back-end [...]
Continue Reading Amazon, Apptis and FedCloud
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By Ken Y-N
August 18th, 2009 at 07:17am
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With August always being a slow month for news, Scott Rotondo decided to break the silence on the TCG official blog with a round-up of news and other developments in the Trusted Computing Group. Some of the news included Samsung’s self-encrypting solid-state drive, Dell and Wave combining forces to protect data, Steve Hanna from Juniper [...]
Continue Reading Slow News Day musings on Trusted Computing
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By Ken Y-N
August 3rd, 2009 at 03:57pm
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This post on Iron Fog, a blog with the tag line “Thinking about security in this wonderful world of cloud based everything”, got me thinking, even though the post had very little to do with trusted computing. Talking about the security stack A6, Ben said: There’s one problem, providing assurance can’t be done by machines [...]
Continue Reading Getting humans into the loop for assuring security
Tags: a6, iron fog
By Ken Y-N
July 6th, 2009 at 01:55pm
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Oooh, abbreviation overload! Military & Aerospace Electronics recently published a press release entitled Curtiss-Wright Controls announces 8-Core Freescale QorIQ P4080-based VPX single-board computer. There’s a mass of abbreviations and techical terms within the linked article, which says that: The VPX6-187 is designed to leverage the flexibility and feature set of the QorIQ P4080 processor to [...]
Continue Reading VPX6-187: 8-core QorIQ P4080 SBC
Tags: Curtiss-Wright Controls, vpx6-187
By Ken Y-N