September 14th, 2009 at 03:26pm Under TPM
Wave Systems recently announced the release of a beta version on id.wave.com, a system that secures the OpenID identity management service using a Trusted Platform Module. OpenID is used by many services from Facebook to Google as a means of having a single global identity and single global password. By adding a TPM into the [...]
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September 9th, 2009 at 08:34am Under TPM
As speculated in my previous post, Wave Systems posted a follow-on press release on their collaboration in the Open Identity Initiative for federal government. As the press release points out: [W]ith open access comes the need for greater security and privacy. Wave Systems is developing the ability to tie open identity technology into the trusted [...]
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September 9th, 2009 at 07:20am Under TPM
Here’s a very interesting, or very scary, depending on which side of the fence you sit on, new development reported on in a press release on the OpenID Foundation’s web site about a pilot scheme for implementing OpenID for US government web sites. The companies involved are an interesting mix: Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, [...]
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April 14th, 2009 at 02:25pm Under Storage
Engadget recently republished a press release from Samsung on full disk encryption for solid state drives. Samsung will soon be shipping self-encrypting Flash memory-based solid state drives, in sizes of 256GB, 128GB, and 64GB, but with no pricing information. They will come with Wave System’s EMBASSY management software suite to allow secure backup and restore, [...]
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Tags: embassy, engadget, samsung, wave
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November 24th, 2008 at 01:26pm Under TPM
Wave have recently announce that they have signed an OEM deal with Intel to ship their EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) bundled with Intel’s vPro motherboards DQ45CB and DQ45EK with built-in integrated Trusted Platform Module, or iTPM for short. I’ve covered Wave Systems’ products a number of times before, so check the linked archive for other [...]
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Tags: embassy, intel, itpm, marketwatch, wave
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October 20th, 2008 at 02:01pm Under TPM
As a happy home user of a mini Acer Aspire desktop, I was rather interested to see a recent press release on how Acer are adding Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips to their motherboards in their Veriton 670 business desktop computer, and bundling an OEM version of Wave System’s EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) for managing [...]
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September 30th, 2008 at 02:38pm Under Advocacy
When I first saw this article I thought it was a bit of cheap bandwagon jumping, but then the more I thought about the issue the more I thought this was actually a very valid proposal. As you no doubt heard, Alaska Governer and US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin got her email account hacked [...]
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Tags: email, sarah palin, steven sprague, wave, yahoo!
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September 1st, 2008 at 01:35pm Under General
Government Computer News recently took a look at Wave System’s Embassy Remote Administration Server (ERAS). which allows remote administration of systems with Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) installed. It highlights that the US Defense Department, along with other agencies, now require all new PCs to be equipped with one. ERAS requires a machine running Microsoft Windows [...]
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Tags: embassy, government computer news, wave
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August 23rd, 2008 at 03:46pm Under Storage
With corporations worrying ever more about data loss from misplaced laptops, one great application of the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is for full disk encryption, which implements encryption as close to the disk hardware as possible. Toshiba have linked up with Wave Systems to use Wave’s EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager and Remote [...]
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August 23rd, 2008 at 10:12am Under General
Wave Systems are never shy when it comes to making press releases; this time they celebrated record revenues in Q2 2008, of nearly two million dollars, thanks to growth in licensing of their software. However, they still reported a net loss of over 5.5 million dollars, up 16.5% from Q2 2007. Steven Sprague, the President [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems’ Q2 earnings up 41%
Tags: intertrust, nokia, wave
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