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>If the major reason for Trusted Computing is to >protect Copyrighted Works, Then the final >password will be in the hands of the copyright >owner and not the end user.
But it is not. And how keys are stored in the TPM, the secure chip, is hierarchical. That means the owner can always retrieve all the keys. The owner, in personal computers, will be the platform user, as defined by the TCG
The problem with TC and the trusted computing base is that people don't understand what really is. They prefer to complain without having a clue what are the facts
The answer is: Depends, but probably yes
If the had used a key to encryp the data, and they have bounded this key to the current OS, no.
If the had encrypted the data, yes, as TCG is an open standard. Linux can interact with the TPM too, and the way you do it is OS agnostic. As long as they are the owners and have the password, the data could have been retrieved
Think about it. Was that a good thing? for them, yes. For other person, the fact that you were able to do that menas the information in the computer was not private at all.
Trusted Computing is necessary, and is good, as long as the user has the last word on using it or not.
From your post, I belive you don't understand what trusted computing is, or what the TCG specifications imply.
Trusted Computing is based in the assumption that there is a Core Root of Trust. This CRT is trusted, and should be verifiable (not the current state, but maybe in the future we will have an open source BIOS). This CRT will measure the next entity (bootlader, whatever) and will hash the reult into a repository (the Trusted Platform Module). Then the bootloader will do the same with the OS, and so on. Of course, this is an over simplification, but there is no signatures here.
Later, a program wil want to attest the software you are running, and will ask for this integrity measuraments. Also note that this (attestation, measuraments) is only a tiny part of the TCg specifications
I dont see any trouble with this and linux.
If you want to test the IBM API, but you don't have a Trusted Platform Module, you can try using the kernel module emulator at http://tpm-emulator.berlios.de/index.html
The TCG chip, also called Fritz chip and TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is mostly a repository of information. It doen't store by itself anything. The software/firmware of the computer does all this work. This is done by concanating hashes.
Of course, it can work also as a repository of keys, and to sign (the TPM does not have a symmetric encryption like AES or DES). The information in the repository can also be bounded to a specific hardware state, hence the possibility of DRM schemes. But this is NOT the main purpose of the TCG.
Security in Hardware is a MUST. TCG is a step in the right direction by creating a secure repository of information.
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The problem with TC and the trusted computing base is that people don't understand what really is. They prefer to complain without having a clue what are the facts
The answer is: Depends, but probably yes
If the had used a key to encryp the data, and they have bounded this key to the current OS, no.
If the had encrypted the data, yes, as TCG is an open standard. Linux can interact with the TPM too, and the way you do it is OS agnostic. As long as they are the owners and have the password, the data could have been retrieved
Think about it. Was that a good thing? for them, yes. For other person, the fact that you were able to do that menas the information in the computer was not private at all.
Trusted Computing is necessary, and is good, as long as the user has the last word on using it or not.
From your post, I belive you don't understand what trusted computing is, or what the TCG specifications imply. Trusted Computing is based in the assumption that there is a Core Root of Trust. This CRT is trusted, and should be verifiable (not the current state, but maybe in the future we will have an open source BIOS). This CRT will measure the next entity (bootlader, whatever) and will hash the reult into a repository (the Trusted Platform Module). Then the bootloader will do the same with the OS, and so on. Of course, this is an over simplification, but there is no signatures here. Later, a program wil want to attest the software you are running, and will ask for this integrity measuraments. Also note that this (attestation, measuraments) is only a tiny part of the TCg specifications I dont see any trouble with this and linux.
If you want to test the IBM API, but you don't have a Trusted Platform Module, you can try using the kernel module emulator at http://tpm-emulator.berlios.de/index.html
The TCG chip, also called Fritz chip and TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is mostly a repository of information. It doen't store by itself anything. The software/firmware of the computer does all this work. This is done by concanating hashes. Of course, it can work also as a repository of keys, and to sign (the TPM does not have a symmetric encryption like AES or DES). The information in the repository can also be bounded to a specific hardware state, hence the possibility of DRM schemes. But this is NOT the main purpose of the TCG. Security in Hardware is a MUST. TCG is a step in the right direction by creating a secure repository of information.