Surprisingly, but also pleasantly, positive article about Trusted Computing and Linux
Posted by Ken Y-N on November 19th, 2009 at 12:30pm
The article in question on Reporting the World Over covers openSUSE’s support for the TPM and the OpenTC project. The openSUSE aspect is covered by this quote:
“openSUSE is now the first operating system to offer full TC support,” Petautschnig notes. “Until now, TC had been implemented for specific applications, such as Microsoft’s BitLocker hard drive encryption in Windows Vista and Windows 7 or the fingerprint reader on some HP laptops… With the OpenTC platform we are extending the TC environment to the full operating system and beyond,” the project manager adds.
The OpenTC project has been responsible for adding this support to openSUSE.
The OpenTC project itself is very interesting – I’ve attended talks on it, and read its output documents, all freely available from the above-linked web site.
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