March 6th, 2010 at 05:22pm Under TPM
I’m pleased to see another big vote in favour of the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Platform Module, with the announcement at the RSA Conference by Will Drewey of Google that all Google netbook products will ship with a TPM on board and a trusted boot path. The experienced user can disable all this, but they [...]
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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 [...]
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Tags: chrome, chromium, crtm, google, secure boot, verified boot
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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 [...]
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Tags: berlios, chrome, chromium, google, tpm emulator, trusted boot, verified boot
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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 [...]
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Tags: chrome, chromium, evil maid, google
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October 2nd, 2008 at 01:12pm Under MTM
As someone whose particular interest in the Trusted Computing world 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 or the [...]
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Tags: android, google, htc, okl4, open kernel labs
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