November 22nd, 2009 at 04:17pm Under Advocacy
As I suspected, after a positive article on openSUSE’s support for Trusted Computing, the backlash has come from the charmingly-entitled Boycott Novell blog. SUSE is sponsored by Novell, so given the name of the blog and the nature of the more ardent free software promoters it’s not surprising when they say things like: Summary: TPM [...]
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September 28th, 2009 at 02:40pm Under TPM
There was a very interesting article on The H about the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) under Linux, written by Terry Relph-Knight. It’s a look first at the history of the TPM (I’m pretty sure they are incorrect in saying that all Intel-based Macs come with TPM chips, however), then how the TPM and Linux and [...]
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May 20th, 2009 at 03:21pm Under Uncategorized
LWN.net recently published an article regarding the Linux kernel patches that enable Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and verification of the integrity of the kernel before execution, in an article entitled Enabling DRM in the kernel?. The basic problem, from some Linux kernel developers’ points of view at least, is that TXT can be used [...]
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August 8th, 2008 at 02:43pm Under Advocacy
On his blog DBA Will, he rants on about how Linux is still difficult to configure, and he proclaims that the reason he wants to set it up is to save himself from Trusted Computing, which he defines thus: It would have been nice to change my daily use machine to Linux in preparation for [...]
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May 27th, 2008 at 01:21pm Under TPM
VMKnoppix is a specialist KNOPPIX Live CD, which in itself is based on Debian. This distribution contains a number of Virtual Machin software packages such as Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, QEMU, KQEMU (QEMU with accelerator) and UserMode Linux. The latest release, based on KNOPPIX 5.3.1, version number 20080519, also includes a secure virtual machine monitor BitVisor [...]
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