TPM
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
January 21st, 2009 at 03:11pm
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On the Invisible Things Lab’s blog, there was an interesting post on why the writer misses Microsoft’s BitLocker now that she has switched to a Mac. I’m very pleasantly surprised to see such a positive article from a serious security researchers! She details how BitLocker (Microsoft’s TPM-based disk encryption for Vista) can protect you from [...]
Continue Reading Positive review of Microsoft’s BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, Invisible Things Lab, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
January 6th, 2009 at 02:04pm
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SecurityFocus reported on the presence of a flaw in Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology. The researchers Rafal Wojtczuk and Joanna Rutkowska of Invisible Things Lab, said that they had: found flaws in specific Intel system software (corrected) and a design issue that, together, would allow an attacker to “compromise the integrity” of any software loaded by [...]
Continue Reading Flaw in Trusted Execution Technology
Tags: intel, securityfocus, txt
By Ken Y-N
December 22nd, 2008 at 01:56pm
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Mike Rede, The Email Admin, looks at Security Devices and Chips on his blog, and seems to like it: The good news is that hardware support for encryption is here and improvements in technology will make these devices and chips better, faster, and more easily integrated into your environment.
Continue Reading The Email Admin on the TPM
Tags: mike rede
By Ken Y-N