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May 5th, 2010 at 02:56pm
Under TPM
I’ve just spotted a new entry in the Google Code Chrome OS issues database: Tracking tasks to take TPM ownership during OOBE. OOBE is most likely Out Of Box Experience, how the user interacts with the device when they first turn it on. On current PCs, taking ownership of a TPM requires explicit user actions [...]
Continue Reading Interesting new Google Chrome OS TPM feature
Tags: chrome, chromium, google
By Ken Y-N
March 27th, 2010 at 02:10pm
Under TPM
Following on from a previous post on TPM integration into Chrome OS from Google, I see that just three days after I posted on the 19th of March there were five new TPM-related firmware test issues added, then on the 23rd of March another fifteen new test issues were added to the Chrome issues database. [...]
Continue Reading More on the TPM in Chrome OS
Tags: chrome, chromium, google
By Ken Y-N
March 16th, 2010 at 04:25pm
Under TPM
I’ve been searching around Google’s code repository for Chrome OS trying to find a few hints as to what they might be thinking of doing regarding the Trusted Platform Module, and I’ve had a few interesting hits: Issue 313: Connman must encrypt credentials when it writes them to disk Connman is the module that controls [...]
Continue Reading Google Chrome OS and TPM features
Tags: chrome, chromium, google
By Ken Y-N
November 27th, 2009 at 04:23pm
Under MTM
With Google recently releasing the design documents for their Chromium (Chrome) OS I was further curious to see if they had considered the Trusted Computing Group’s Mobile Trusted Module, but sadly they had not. Thinking about the problem, their write-protected region of EEPROM works as a CRTM (Core Root of Trust for Measurement), and this [...]
Continue Reading Google Chromium (Chrome) OS versus the MTM
Tags: chrome, chromium, crtm, google, secure boot, verified boot
By Ken Y-N
November 27th, 2009 at 04:20pm
Under TPM
With Google recently releasing the design documents for their Chromium (Chrome) OS I was also curious to see if they had considered the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Platform Module, so I was pleased to see a sub-section on TPM support in the description of firmware boot. However, all that section says is that a TPM [...]
Continue Reading Google Chromium (Chrome) OS versus the TPM
Tags: berlios, chrome, chromium, google, tpm emulator, trusted boot, verified boot
By Ken Y-N
November 27th, 2009 at 04:17pm
Under General
The Evil Maid attack is an interesting way to hack certain full disk encryption systems, and with Google recently releasing the design documents for their new Chromium (Chrome) OS I was curious to see if an Evil Maid could get nasty with your Chromium-based device. The good news is no, the Evil Maid cannot attack [...]
Continue Reading Google Chromium (Chrome) OS versus the Evil Maid
Tags: chrome, chromium, evil maid, google
By Ken Y-N