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LaGrande, TCPA, and Palladium
An anonymous reader writes "Intel's Paul Otellini gave a talk to developers where Intel's project called "LaGrande" was mentioned. This project is aimed to create a "safer computer environment", that would consist of an advanced TCPA implementation. Some of the features it has deal with physically "protected execution, protected memory, and protected storage". When talking on LaGrande, Otellini said "it's a core technology that things like the Microsoft Palladium initiative can take advantage of to build much more stable platforms.""
They add complexity, but the slightest bug in the complex software will probably be exploitable to make encrypted data available to "normal" (e.g. non-approved-by-the-Intel-Microsoft-hegemony) programs.
Bugs in software cannot lead to protected data being divulged. The encryption key management and encryption routines themselves are implemented in hardware. The software portion of Palladium is actually pretty small, and Microsoft plans on releasing that code for public review.
And no programs are approved by Microsoft or Intel- Palladium amounts to an API that is available for ANY developer to use without any need to certify or register that software with anybody.
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No, it's named for the city of La Grande, in the northeaast corner of Oregon. Intel codenames its processors after Oregon locations (such as Klamath).
La Grande itself is a relatively pleasant community, in spite of my ex-wife making it her home.
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