Dartmouth Project Combines Linux With TCPA

SiliconEntity writes "A new project from Dartmouth College demonstrates significant advances in combining Linux with TCPA. The software turns a Linux PC into a 'virtual secure coprocessor', which is able to check that none of its software is compromised and even (in a future version) prove its integrity to a remote system. Full GPL source code is available for the 2.4 kernel. This work is separate from the earlier IBM research which also combined Linux with TCPA, with the new project apparently more complete and with a road map towards a very functional Linux based trusted computing system. This could be an important technology for Linux to challenge Microsoft as it pushes forward with NGSCB (aka Palladium)."

Comments

The source code

[OpenSourcerer]

>Full GPL source code is available for the 2.4 kernel

Please make sure that all the efforts are undertaken to remove any references to the construct 'main()' as it will infringe on SCO copyrights

Re:The source code

[Anonymous Coward]

oh, just quit complaining and pay your $699 licensing fee.

Re:The source code

[OpenSourcerer]

Sorry, I can't. My account is in overdraft since i paid 2000 bucks to RIAA

Oooh! Verifiable integrity and an encrypted FS.

[Read Icculus]

Sounds like just the thing I need. That hacked together script that I currently use to md5sum all my important system binaries + files and verify them against the Known Goods database every 2 minutes is going out the window along with chkrootkit just as soon as I can go over every LOC with an STM and run this fine piece of software. Thanks be to you my fellow linux-users, I have finally found people who wear more layers of foil on their heads than I.

Re:Oooh! Verifiable integrity and an encrypted FS.

[mikeee]

I have finally found people who wear more layers of foil on their heads than I.

You fool! If you wear more than one layer the psychotronic carrier waves will resonate and penetrate the barrier!

Great business plan!

[Anonymous Coward]

Who will be the first to start selling mod chips for pc computers?

Re:actual secure coprocessor

[OpenSourcerer]

'virtual secure coprocessor'
When you try to break in, it stops you and gives you a lecture with quotes from the Bible. Makes you a better person

Trustworthy computing

[sneakybilly]

I love this bit from the microsoft ngscb pagen "Data can be protected with a secure pathway from the keyboard through the computer to the monitor screen, preventing it from being secretly intercepted or spied on" Yeah like this is a major security problem with current day computing. I've always wondered if my information is secure between my keyboard and the monitor :)

Start Song..

[instanto]

Its the end of the world as we know it...

(I could have typed more, but then I would probably owe RIAA 150.000$ per slashdot user who read this)
(all 5 of them since I have a bad karma)

OK

[Anonymous Coward]

As per your request, please bend over and wait for further instructions.

Thank you.