Recently it was announced (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wirestory?id=9780148&page=1) with much fanfare that the now-ubiquitous “TPM” chip found in most modern computers had been hacked. This obviously unnerved a lot of people, especially those hanging the safety of their secrets on free solutions like Microsoft Bitlocker which use the TPM to provide convenience to their users. The attack, invented Read more…
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In Part I of this post, I briefly discussed Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) and the core services they can offer. In this part, I’ll go through some of the controversial issues that surround these services. One of the key services is remote attestation. TPMs carry in their user-nonmodifiable, nonvolatile memory an endorsement key (EK), which Read more…
Tags: TPM, Trusted Computing
If you happen to be buying any new PC machine(s) soon, you might find this post very relevant. In a series of posts, I will be trying to explain the functionalities and security concerns surrounding one of the components that is very likely to be soldered to a motherboard of a machine that you are Read more…
Tags: TPM, Trusted Computing
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