Don’t forget the Trust in the TPM!

Posted by Ken Y-N on March 30th, 2008 at 02:09pm

There is an interesting, thought-provoking post written by Rob Enderle on the Trusted Computing Group’s official blog that reminds everyone the key to the TCG and TPM is the T for Trust. First, what is trust? Here is the definition from the article:

At the core of trust is the belief I can depend on whatever is trusted, that it will be beneficial, and that I believe whatever is trusted will be beneficial with not time constraints.

Err, re-reading that I don’t really get what it is saying. But never mind, let us press on. Here’s a better quote!

products; and technology products in particular, sell based on advocacy. This means no matter how good an offering is if people aren’t talking about it they aren’t building demand for it.

This is what this blog is about to some degree, advocacy, highlighting some of the developments in the trusted computing world. There is disappointingly little talk about the Trusted Platform Module despite it being installed on close to 200 million computers worldwide, and the biggest challenge facing the Trusted Computing Group is persuading even just 1% of the owners of these chips that they have an exceptionally powerful security device built into their computer!

For the full story, please check out the original post, although I must note that it is written quite badly and should have been cleaned up before posting, but please don’t let that spoil your enjoyment.

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