TPM
March 25th, 2010 at 03:07pm
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The site IT Expert Voice had a detailed how-to on configuring BitLocker, including how to enable the TPM, and even how to get around not having a TPM to enable. It’s a useful guide, although it also has the statement: TPM chips are already used in some consumer devices to restrict video playback. Is this [...]
Continue Reading How to set up BitLocker on a Windows 7 computer
Tags: bitlocker, it expert voice
By Ken Y-N
March 16th, 2010 at 04:25pm
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I’ve been searching around Google’s code repository for Chrome OS trying to find a few hints as to what they might be thinking of doing regarding the Trusted Platform Module, and I’ve had a few interesting hits: Issue 313: Connman must encrypt credentials when it writes them to disk Connman is the module that controls [...]
Continue Reading Google Chrome OS and TPM features
Tags: chrome, chromium, google
By Ken Y-N
March 6th, 2010 at 05:22pm
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I’m pleased to see another big vote in favour of the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Platform Module, with the announcement at the RSA Conference by Will Drewey of Google that all Google netbook products will ship with a TPM on board and a trusted boot path. The experienced user can disable all this, but they [...]
Continue Reading Google’s Chrome OS netbooks to feature TPMs
Tags: chrome, google, netbook
By Ken Y-N
February 23rd, 2010 at 03:41pm
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I’ve just learnt of two articles that take a calmer look at the recent Black Hat TPM hack – first, PC Security Hack Is No Big Deal by Gerson Lehrman Group, then Old hacks never die, they just attack new systems by Government Computer News.
Continue Reading More coverage on the Black Hat TPM hack
Tags: black hat
By Ken Y-N
February 5th, 2010 at 03:12pm
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The big news of the last week in the Trusted Computing world has been an announcement of an attack on a TPM. The full article is very interesting to see how the attack took place. The Trusted Computing Group has also published their opinion on the attack, which highlights that nothing is ever 100% secure, [...]
Continue Reading Hardware attack on Trusted Platform Module
Tags: black hat
By Ken Y-N
January 18th, 2010 at 03:15pm
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Here’s a bit of a technically inaccurate but sufficiently curious post from The Register on Apple’s control over the software on the iPhone. The main thrust of the article is about the impending (or otherwise…) release of the iSlate or whatever the rumoured Apple tablet will be called, but they have this comment: Microsoft once [...]
Continue Reading Apple’s iPhone control versus the TPM
Tags: apple, iphone, islate
By Ken Y-N
December 16th, 2009 at 02:29pm
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There was an interesting post on the FPGA Gurus blog recently, looking at Sidechannel attacks of FPGAs and how they relate to the TPM. It notes that Cryptography Research, the leaders in developing defensive methods against power analysis attacks on hardware, are working with the Trusted Computing Group on issues surrounding these kinds of attacks [...]
Continue Reading Differential Power Analysis and the Trusted Platform Module
Tags: cryptography research, dpa, fips-140, fpga
By Ken Y-N
December 14th, 2009 at 02:48pm
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As I suspected two months ago when the Evil Maid first came to my attention, she can get at your hard disk encryption passwords even if you use TPM, as discussed in a recent article on The H. Note that even though they described the hack in detail, Fraunhofer also stressed that: Despite the security [...]
Continue Reading Fraunhofer SIT and their BitLocker TPM hacks
Tags: bitlocker, evil maid, Fraunhofer, heise
By Ken Y-N
November 27th, 2009 at 04:20pm
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With Google recently releasing the design documents for their Chromium (Chrome) OS I was also curious to see if they had considered the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Platform Module, so I was pleased to see a sub-section on TPM support in the description of firmware boot. However, all that section says is that a TPM [...]
Continue Reading Google Chromium (Chrome) OS versus the TPM
Tags: berlios, chrome, chromium, google, tpm emulator, trusted boot, verified boot
By Ken Y-N
November 19th, 2009 at 12:38pm
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On ComputerWeekly.com there’s a rather truncated article about why corporate adoption of TCG standards are low. About the only bit of the article I can agree with is: latent suspicion is very much alive But all the rest seems very much a collection of various rumours, rather than a serious study as suggested by the [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing rejected due to privacy, security concerns
Tags: isaca
By Ken Y-N