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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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 to [...]
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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 no [...]
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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 password.
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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 an [...]
Continue Reading TPM 1.2 becomes ISO/IEC 11889, Parts 1-4
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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 enterprise [...]
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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 looking [...]
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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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