May 28th, 2009 at 02:44pm Under Advocacy
Joanna from Invisible Things Labs recently published on her blog a set of slides on Trusted Computing thoughts. The set is a huge 150 pages long, but each page is nice and easy to digest and it can be got through at a good speed. It’s well worth a read as a summary of what [...]
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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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March 20th, 2009 at 02:43pm Under TPM
I reported before on an exploit affecting TXT, Trusted Execution Technology, but a report from ArsTechnica suggests that it may just be a storm in a teacup. The summary is that there is an attack, but it’s not easy, and it’s not generalisable. However, as ArsTechnica conclude: The complexity of computer security is such that [...]
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January 6th, 2009 at 02:04pm Under TPM
SecurityFocus reported on the presence of a flaw in Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology. The researchers Rafal Wojtczuk and Joanna Rutkowska of Invisible Things Lab, said that they had: found flaws in specific Intel system software (corrected) and a design issue that, together, would allow an attacker to “compromise the integrity” of any software loaded by [...]
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