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The secret behind Trusted Computing revealed!

June 2nd, 2010 at 04:42pm Under Uncategorized

My news alerts occasionally throw up interesting references to Trusted Computing, and this recent one was more interesting than most… Generally, this theory [that the international banking interests are planning to eventually subvert the independence of the United States of America by subordinating national sovereignty to the United Nations] maintains a nexus to capitalism, materialism, [...]

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Open Kernel Labs’ YouTube channel

March 26th, 2010 at 05:27pm Under Uncategorized

As Open Kernel Labs seem to have disabled embedding, I can just give you a link to a very interesting video on secure virtualisation under Android with OKL4, their secure and trusted hypervisor. Their full YouTube channel can be found here.

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Blog of Trust goes all aTwitter

February 12th, 2010 at 04:21pm Under Uncategorized

I’ve just added a Blog of Trust account on Twitter, which for the time being will be merely echoing posts from here. Don’t forget also to sign up to TrustedComputin too, which is quite active with all the latest Trusted Computing headlines.

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TXT, DRM and Linux

May 20th, 2009 at 03:21pm Under Uncategorized

LWN.net recently published an article regarding the Linux kernel patches that enable Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and verification of the integrity of the kernel before execution, in an article entitled Enabling DRM in the kernel?. The basic problem, from some Linux kernel developers’ points of view at least, is that TXT can be used [...]

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IT security is an oxymoron

April 1st, 2009 at 03:51pm Under Uncategorized

In a guest post on SD Times, David Kleidermacher of Green Hills Software wrote a long piece on IT security: apathy or ignorance? The thrust of the argument is that most IT systems is riddled with vulnerabilities, but secure software for aircraft and military systems follow a process that prevents these problems. However, there is [...]

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Computerworld worries about lost full disk encryption passwords

February 2nd, 2009 at 03:22pm Under Uncategorized

A legitimate concern highlighted by Computerworld regarding the TCG’s hard disk self-encryption standards is how do you recover from a lost password. Thankfully, the TCG’s Storage Working Group thought of that, and techniques to alleviate the problem include a way to back up the data securely, and the ability to set a second administrator emergency [...]

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TPM 1.2 becomes ISO/IEC 11889, Parts 1-4

November 28th, 2008 at 02:24pm Under Uncategorized

From the official Trusted Computing Group (TCG) blog comes a post by Claire Vishik of Intel entitled TPM 1.2 specifications moves forward to become ISO/IEC standards. In 2007 the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) v1.2 specification was submitted to JTC1 (ISO/IEC Joint Committee 1), and in July 2008 the member countries voted to approve it as [...]

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Prevent most disk data losses with TPM-based self-encrypting storage

September 17th, 2008 at 04:23pm Under Storage+ Uncategorized

For me this is the biggest no-brainer when it comes to looking at deployment of higher-security data protection systems in the enterprise, or even at home. The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has specified a low-cost solution that implements encryption at the disk drive level. As Roget Kay of Endpoint Technologies says: “I’m surprised that more [...]

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Help save Station X!

September 11th, 2008 at 02:12pm Under Uncategorized

You may have read the news about Bletchley Park being in financial difficulties, with the risk of losing the home of the very first digital computer and the centre for wartime code-breaking. My father worked there, and now I’m working with people from an organisation spawned from there on cryptography for peaceful purposes. They are [...]

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TCG at Interop Las Vegas 2008

May 8th, 2008 at 07:38pm Under Uncategorized

Just a quick heads-up that the Trusted Computing Group has published their key presentations from Interop Las Vegas on their official site. Be sure to visit to check out the IF-MAP stuff in particular!

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