July 6th, 2009 at 01:54pm Under General
After a six-month or more layoff, Blog of Trust is back being updated again! For the next few weeks I’ll be back-filling stories as well as adding new entries, so if you see strange things on the RSS feed that’s probably the reason. Since I’m back-filling, I’ll be more brief than usual with my summaries. [...]
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May 7th, 2009 at 02:36pm Under General
The headline doesn’t sound like a very promising technology, but what it actually is is a new technology from Phoenix Technologies to use a Bluetooth phone to pair with your computer, so when you and your phone walk away from the desk, the computer auto-locks; this package is called Freeze. The report mentions that Phoenix [...]
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May 6th, 2009 at 02:35pm Under General
Here’s a conference I’d love to go to, CyLab’s Trusted Infrastructure Workshop summer school on architectures for trustworthy computing. The school is open to researchers in IT security and post-graduates working on their MSc or PhD. The name sponsors are National Science Foundation (NSF), Hewlett-Packard Labs, Sun Microsystems, Seagate, IBM and Fujitsu. There will be [...]
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April 20th, 2009 at 02:31pm Under General
Ravi Sahita of Intel recently reported on P-MAPS, a hardware-rooted Trusted Computing Base. The idea is the P-MAPS implements a small Trusted Computing Base that runs at a very low level, and in an OS-agnostic form. This P-MAPS system also works with a TPM to provide additional security. It’s a bit too technical an article [...]
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April 9th, 2009 at 03:55pm Under General
Trenton Technology Inc recently released their MCP6792 AdvancedMC processor card. The specifications to make your head spin include: …configurable PCI Express links and dual 1000Base-BX Ethernet interfaces to the card’s edge connector. These links enable MicroTCA chassis designs that can include PCI Express and Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces on a system backplane. Other card features [...]
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March 25th, 2009 at 03:46pm Under General
Joanna from the Invisible Things posted a thought-provoking post on trusting processors and other hardware. The thrust of the argument is that the more paranoid person is always sure to run open source software on their computer to ensure that there is little or no chance of backdoors being inserted into the code, but almost [...]
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March 12th, 2009 at 03:26pm Under General
I picked up a story from Express Buzz on the opening of Technopark TBI extension centre in Bangalore, and found mention of a company, Dataway Solutions, who, according to their web site, are into many Trusted Computing related activities. Their CEO is named as Vikas Srivastava in the story, and a straightforward internet search reveals [...]
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February 12th, 2009 at 03:24pm Under General
If you’re a Mac owner who’s looking jealously at your PC friend’s TPM, then OSX Book has the solution you’ve been looking for, in an article on how to enable the TPM emulator on OSX. The complete article is a step-by-step guide for getting the emulator up and running on your favourite Mac.
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December 5th, 2008 at 02:09pm Under General
I’ve mentioned Nauman/recluze before, so it was nice to see an update on his blog regarding Trusted Computing, Mobiles and the Project. He’s working on a not-confidential-but-cannot-be-mentioned project which he hints at with this tantalising information: We’ve started working on our Dynamic Behavioral Attestation for Mobile Platforms project. We’ve had some tutorial sessions and we’re [...]
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December 1st, 2008 at 01:34pm Under General
Wow, I’m seriously impressed, having attended a few lectures on what exactly all the various EALs (Evaluation Assurance Levels) mean, to see that Green Hills Sofware have announced that their operating system Integrity-178B has been rated by a National Security Agency-run certification process as EAL6+. To market this, the highest-rated OS in the world, they [...]
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