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November 17th, 2009 at 03:04pm
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In an interesting development reported on by EE Times, Infineon Technologies AG are to get their Trusted Platform Module Certificate Authority certified by VeriSign. This will give them a Root Certificate which will enable Infineon’s TPMs to issue secure digital certificates. In related news, on the Trusted Computing Group web site, it notes that Infineon’s [...]
Continue Reading VeriSign to endorse Infineon’s TPM
Tags: ee times, infineon, verisign
By Ken Y-N
November 7th, 2009 at 02:39pm
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I enjoyed reading this article from Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen blog on how to set up BitLocker but still be able to boot into virtual hard disk images. It was also interesting to see that Microsoft now require all contractors (and presumably full-time staff too) to encrypt all their drives with BitLocker.
Continue Reading TPM, BitLocker, and Microsoft contractors
Tags: bitlocker, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
November 6th, 2009 at 02:29pm
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With cars getting more and more sophisticated and the worry about hackers moving on to attacking four-wheel targets, projects are underway to standardise communication pathways and protection methods, with the Trusted Platform Module being the core many manufacturers are gravitating towards, according to this article on EETimes Germany entitled Consumer electronics enforce automotive security discussion. [...]
Continue Reading Putting trust in your car
Tags: automotive, eetimes
By Ken Y-N
November 5th, 2009 at 03:44pm
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There’s just an indirect mention of the HP ProBook line of mobile computers having a Trusted Platform Module on board, but the picture at the head of the article (which actually has a different line of portable computers on display) features a number of ladies that are a bit more lively than the stock photography [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing needs promotions like this one!
Tags: india, probook
By Ken Y-N
October 18th, 2009 at 03:49pm
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While reading up another article that I am going to be posting about later this week, I followed a link to a FAQ on the TrueCrypt web site regarding TPM containing this paragraph: The only thing that TPM is almost guaranteed to provide is a false sense of security (even the name itself, "Trusted Platform [...]
Continue Reading TPM is merely security theatre
Tags: bitlocker, truecrypt
By Ken Y-N
October 16th, 2009 at 03:44pm
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No, it’s not the latest Halloween movie, but instead one part of a very interesting post on the Invisible Things Labs blog by Joanna Rutkowska on Evil Maid goes after TrueCrypt! The Evil Maid scenario is a laptop computer with disk encryption left in a hotel room. The first day, the Evil Maid boots off [...]
Continue Reading Evil Maid versus the TPM
Tags: evil maid, invisible things
By Ken Y-N
September 28th, 2009 at 02:40pm
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There was a very interesting article on The H about the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) under Linux, written by Terry Relph-Knight. It’s a look first at the history of the TPM (I’m pretty sure they are incorrect in saying that all Intel-based Macs come with TPM chips, however), then how the TPM and Linux and [...]
Continue Reading Linux and the Trusted Platform Module
Tags: gpl, linux
By Ken Y-N
September 15th, 2009 at 03:33pm
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Today’s new product is a Single Board Computer from Parvus. It’s a board designed for the harsh environments of aerospace or military, and the expanded headline spec is: [T]he ISIS XL, a rugged PC/104+ Single Board Computer (SBC) module fitted with Intel’s highest speed industrial temp package Atom processor (Z520PT) and Intel® System Controller Hub [...]
Continue Reading Parvus’ ISIS XL, an SBC with Z520PT and US15WPT
Tags: isis xl, parvus
By Ken Y-N
September 14th, 2009 at 03:26pm
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Wave Systems recently announced the release of a beta version on id.wave.com, a system that secures the OpenID identity management service using a Trusted Platform Module. OpenID is used by many services from Facebook to Google as a means of having a single global identity and single global password. By adding a TPM into the [...]
Continue Reading Wave releases TPM-secured OpenID beta
Tags: openid, wave
By Ken Y-N
September 9th, 2009 at 08:34am
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As speculated in my previous post, Wave Systems posted a follow-on press release on their collaboration in the Open Identity Initiative for federal government. As the press release points out: [W]ith open access comes the need for greater security and privacy. Wave Systems is developing the ability to tie open identity technology into the trusted [...]
Continue Reading Open Government Open Identity to use TPM to enhance security
Tags: openid, wave
By Ken Y-N