September 7th, 2008 at 01:46pm Under Advocacy
Here’s a rather interesting post I picked up from LiveJournal, written by djcapelis, a student at UCSD, but who works with Intel as an independent security researcher. He says that in a couple of weeks he’ll be visiting Intel’s Hillsboro campus in Oregon to present a talk on why he thinks Intel should change tack [...]
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August 6th, 2008 at 01:28pm Under Advocacy
For a change, some good news about trusted computing, this time from IT Pro and written by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe. The article starts by painting a picture of having a second operating system on a PC that has a smaller feature set and will only run trusted applications, like Microsoft’s Palladium, or Next [...]
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Tags: express gate, intel, montevina, ngscb, palladium
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:08pm Under Virtualisation
The official Intel research blog recently had a rather interesting article from Ravi Sahita regarding how to use Intel’s technology to build a more secure software environment. The article is a bit heavy on Intel tech buzzwords as one might expect, but the content is nonetheless worth reading. The premise of the article is how [...]
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Tags: intel, ravi sahita, Virtualisation
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March 17th, 2008 at 03:08pm Under TPM
As reported earlier, Infineon has been chosen as the supplier for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) services to Intel, providing a Trusted Software Stack (TSS) for Intel’s TPM 1.2 hardware on their Intel vPro and Centrino processor-based solutions, being shipped in notebooks and desktops from Hewlett Packard and other vendors. Peter Bauer from Infineon’s management board [...]
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March 12th, 2008 at 03:47pm Under TPM
The recent exciting news from Intel and Infineon is that Intel has chosen Infineon as a preferred software supplier of the Trusted Computing Platform for the vPro and Centrino technologies. From the article: Infineon will supply Intel with its TPM 1.2 client, the software for the latter one’s Trusted Platform Module 1.2 hardware solution. Aiming [...]
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