computerworld
September 29th, 2010 at 04:02pm
Under TPM
A move by PricewaterhouseCoopers away from software-based certificates to Trusted Platform Module hardware-based certificates was reported on by Computerworld. They are in the progress of migrating around 150,000 users, helped by Wave System’s management tools to handle turning on the TPMs and provisioning certificates, etc. From a cost point of view, there’s this interesting figure: [...]
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By Ken Y-N
February 9th, 2009 at 03:22pm
Under Storage
In a look at the latests TCG Secure Storage specifications, Computerworld reports that experts predict all drives will be self-encrypting in five years. I think that full disk encryption is the TCG standard that is most immediately relevant to the average end-user, so such moves would be more than welcome by me.
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By Ken Y-N
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 [...]
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By Ken Y-N