December 2nd, 2009 at 01:52pm Under MTM
Just a quick note that although a previous post of mine it on top of Google for a search for MTM Emulator, the target link is out of date. I’d been informed of the new location through another channel, but I didn’t think I had permission to announce it. However, I now see that the [...]
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November 27th, 2009 at 04:23pm Under MTM
With Google recently releasing the design documents for their Chromium (Chrome) OS I was further curious to see if they had considered the Trusted Computing Group’s Mobile Trusted Module, but sadly they had not. Thinking about the problem, their write-protected region of EEPROM works as a CRTM (Core Root of Trust for Measurement), and this [...]
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Tags: chrome, chromium, crtm, google, secure boot, verified boot
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November 3rd, 2009 at 03:21pm Under MTM
There’s a bit of a buzz going around about this job posting from Apple, looking for an iPhone OS Platform Security Manager. The first paragraph of the job description is: The Core OS group is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on the platform security of iPhone OS. The [...]
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Tags: iphone, secure boot, trustzone
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October 12th, 2009 at 03:26pm Under MTM
Maemo is Nokia’s new Linux-based software platform for mobile phones and tablet computers, etc, so I was interested to see this post entitled Maemo Security – Lockdown or Liberation? by an open source developer involved with the device. There was this interesting section: At the Maemo2009 Summit Nokia shared a great deal of information about [...]
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July 20th, 2009 at 03:12pm Under MTM+ Virtualisation
Embedded Computing recently published an article by Steve Subar of Open Kernel Labs on mobile phone virtualization. This is a subject in which I have a lot of active interest, especially in relation to the Mobile Trusted Module and its associated Multi-Stakeholder Model. Open Kernel Labs’ OKL4 hypervisor has found its way into the two [...]
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Tags: android, iphone, open kernel labs
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October 3rd, 2008 at 09:27am Under MTM
TECOM, Trusted Embedded COMputing, is a project funded in part by Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA) looking at trusted computing in embedded systems, with a €1,516,639 budget. Aonix have announced that they will provide the PERC Ultra Java Virtual Machine to be integrated with the TECOM middleware and the TECOM trusted operating system, itself [...]
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October 2nd, 2008 at 01:12pm Under MTM
As someone whose particular interest in the Trusted Computing world is the mobile sphere, I found this story a sign of what may come – I remember the rumours about a TPM in the iPhone, so how long before we see a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in an Android phone, either the rumour or the [...]
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Tags: android, google, htc, okl4, open kernel labs
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September 4th, 2008 at 02:22pm Under MTM
Janne Uusilehto, head of Nokia product security and chairman of the Trusted Computing Group’s Mobile Phone Work Group, will be a panelist on a discussion on enterprise mobile security at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2008 conference, to be held on the 11th of September 2008 from 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm at the [...]
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Tags: mobile phone, nokia, wireless it
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May 12th, 2008 at 01:47pm Under MTM
EE Times Asia recently published an article (almost a white paper) written by Venkat Natarajan from Spansion on their new technology, integrity-protected memory, is better than the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Mobile Phone Working Group’s (MPWG) Mobile Trusted Module (MTM) specification. Although the model they present of their solution seems to be suggested as a [...]
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March 14th, 2008 at 03:43pm Under MTM
Nokia have recently offered an MTM (Mobile Trusted Module) based on the specification developed by the MPWG (Mobile Phone Working Group) of the TCG (Trusted Computing Group). This application should run on most modern versions of Linux, although there is a rather fiddly install process with a number of dependent projects that need to be [...]
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