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January 30th, 2011 at 03:00pm
Under MTM+ TPM
I came across an interesting article in Network World discussing issues surrounding the rumoured iPhone with NFC (RFID) payment chip. Jeff Nigriny, the CEO of identity management and security firm CertiPath, says that: [I]t would make the most sense for device manufacturers and software designers to separate the iPhone’s payment function from other apps using [...]
Continue Reading Network World suggests there should be a TPM in iPhones
Tags: globalplatform, iphone, network world
By Ken Y-N
January 27th, 2011 at 02:04pm
Under TPM
Just a quick note about a paper published by Carnegie Mellon entitled "Trust and Trusted Computing Platforms", technical note CMU/SEI-2011-TN-005. The abstract is as follows: Hardware-based trusted computing platforms are intended to overcome many of the problems of trust that are prominent in computing systems. In this paper, a result of the Software Engineering Institute’s [...]
Continue Reading Carnegie Mellon reports on the TPM
Tags: carnegie-mellon
By Ken Y-N
January 19th, 2011 at 01:34pm
Under TPM
I recently came across an interesting paper entitled "On Using TPM for Secure Identities in Future Home Networks" by five members of the Faculty of Informatics in Technical University, Munich. The abstract is as follow: Security should be integrated into future networks from the beginning, not as an extension. Secure identities and authentication schemes are [...]
Continue Reading On Using TPM for Secure Identities in Future Home Networks
Tags: home
By Ken Y-N
December 11th, 2010 at 04:55pm
Under TPM
One of the big stories of the last week was Google announcing their pilot program for their Chrome OS-equipped notebook. Some of the things it offers are: it encrypts all data automatically; and it uses a piece of encryption hardware called a trusted computing module to digitally sign components of the operating system and check [...]
Continue Reading Google’s Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook
Tags: chrome, cr-48, google
By Ken Y-N
October 8th, 2010 at 04:48pm
Under TPM
This is a story I first reported on last year or so, so I am pleased to see that Wave Systems have now been certified by the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) as compatible with the US Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) specifications. OIX basically means that: "The Open Identity Exchange provides a critical business [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems gets certification for trusted single sign-in
Tags: icam, oix, openid, wave
By Ken Y-N
September 29th, 2010 at 04:09pm
Under TPM
I’m following the Google Chromium OS issue database to try to find out what they are up to regarding their new OS and trusted computing, so I was amused to see this entry today: Currently the scary boot screen says "This copy of Chrome OS is untrusted. Press SPACE to begin recovery." Sumit pointed out [...]
Continue Reading Google removes treacherous boot from Chrome OS
Tags: chrome, chromium, google
By Ken Y-N
September 29th, 2010 at 04:02pm
Under TPM
A move by PricewaterhouseCoopers away from software-based certificates to Trusted Platform Module hardware-based certificates was reported on by Computerworld. They are in the progress of migrating around 150,000 users, helped by Wave System’s management tools to handle turning on the TPMs and provisioning certificates, etc. From a cost point of view, there’s this interesting figure: [...]
Continue Reading PricewaterhouseCoopers moves to TPM-based certificates
Tags: computerworld, pricewaterhousecoopers, wave
By Ken Y-N
June 28th, 2010 at 03:55pm
Under Advocacy+ TPM
A draft from the US Government proposes an "identity ecosystem", according to this post on Government Computer News. The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace discusses how both the public and private sector can use a trusted identity for more secure online transactions. The big picture is: In the envisioned identity ecosystem individuals, organizations, [...]
Continue Reading Trusted identity ecosystem proposed for the USA
Tags: government computer news, identity
By Ken Y-N
May 5th, 2010 at 02:56pm
Under TPM
I’ve just spotted a new entry in the Google Code Chrome OS issues database: Tracking tasks to take TPM ownership during OOBE. OOBE is most likely Out Of Box Experience, how the user interacts with the device when they first turn it on. On current PCs, taking ownership of a TPM requires explicit user actions [...]
Continue Reading Interesting new Google Chrome OS TPM feature
Tags: chrome, chromium, google
By Ken Y-N
March 27th, 2010 at 02:10pm
Under TPM
Following on from a previous post on TPM integration into Chrome OS from Google, I see that just three days after I posted on the 19th of March there were five new TPM-related firmware test issues added, then on the 23rd of March another fifteen new test issues were added to the Chrome issues database. [...]
Continue Reading More on the TPM in Chrome OS
Tags: chrome, chromium, google
By Ken Y-N