No TPM on the iPhone, official!
Posted by Ken Y-N on August 6th, 2008 at 05:28pm
On the MyTriniPhone blog a person called “Pumpkin” from the iPhone development team was quoted as saying the following:
More FUD is spread by this undying rumor of “Palladium” (or TPM) being used fully on Apple’s devices, making it impossible for you “to play online with legit buyers.” This is nothing but uninformed nonsense, and while there is the potential for some definition of trusted computing on iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple is not using it, and they have no way to remotely distinguish your pwned device from a legitimately activated one. This should have been obvious from our examples of running App Store applications next to our custom ones, but “obvious” is a very relative term.
When I previously mentioned the rumour of TPM on the iPhone I did say it was most unlikely to be true. However, picking apart the quote in detail I see first he denies that Palladium is used fully. I feel this confirms that they are using some aspects of the phone’s processor’s TrustZone. The rest of the quote confirms only that they do not do remote attestation, with the writer seeming to equate trusted computing with remote attestation.
The quote above came from the blog here.
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1. OKL4 and Android: are the&hellip | October 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
[...] is the mobile sphere, I found this story a sign of what may come - I remember the rumours about a TPM in the iPhone, so how long before we see a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in an Android phone, either the rumour [...]
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