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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
September 9th, 2009 at 07:20am
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Here’s a very interesting, or very scary, depending on which side of the fence you sit on, new development reported on in a press release on the OpenID Foundation’s web site about a pilot scheme for implementing OpenID for US government web sites. The companies involved are an interesting mix: Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, [...]
Continue Reading Open Government Open Identity to require TPM for maximum security?
Tags: openid, wave
By Ken Y-N
August 5th, 2009 at 04:01pm
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As reported in many places including Centre Daily Times, the Trusted Platform Module has now officially become ISO/IEC 11889-1:2009.
Continue Reading Congratulations to the TCG on getting ISO standardisation!
Tags: iso
By Ken Y-N
April 3rd, 2009 at 03:53pm
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There was a not unusprisingly negative (given the site name) on adding TPM support into the kernel published on the site Boycott Novell. The spark that set them off was the following change notes for the Linux Weather Forecast project from IBM for Linux 2.6.30: Support for integrity management in the kernel has been merged. [...]
Continue Reading TPM equals TiVoization
Tags: boycott novell, gpl, tivo
By Ken Y-N
April 1st, 2009 at 03:49pm
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The blog Erich sieht recently posted about an upcoming paper on Attacking the BitLocker Boot Process, to be presented at Trust 2009 in Oxford 6th to 8th April. Although as you can see from my other posts, I’m a really big fan of the TCG’s Storage encryption standards, but I’m not much of a fan [...]
Continue Reading Attacking Microsoft’s BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, microsoft, secure boot
By Ken Y-N
March 20th, 2009 at 02:43pm
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I reported before on an exploit affecting TXT, Trusted Execution Technology, but a report from ArsTechnica suggests that it may just be a storm in a teacup. The summary is that there is an attack, but it’s not easy, and it’s not generalisable. However, as ArsTechnica conclude: The complexity of computer security is such that [...]
Continue Reading Attack on Intel’s TXT not really critical?
Tags: arstechnica, intel, txt
By Ken Y-N
March 12th, 2009 at 03:25pm
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Tablet PC Review recently published an article asking if a tablet PC needs a TPM, with the answer being “yes”. The article is a simple summary of what a PC (any kind, not just tablet) can achieve with a TPM, and given that in the corporate environment tablets are more likely to be out in [...]
Continue Reading TPM in tablet PCs
Tags: tablet
By Ken Y-N
February 6th, 2009 at 03:20pm
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PUF are Physically Unclonable Functions which is basically… well, I’ll leave it to the expert to explain in the post entitled An FPGA home for device authentication?. I know that the first time I became aware of TPM (I knew about PUFs before TPM) I thought that PUFs would be a good fit for the [...]
Continue Reading FPGA Gurus on TPM and PUF
Tags: fpga, puf
By Ken Y-N