I guess M$ has found the new way to get independent reviewers, that too from the hacking community to review their product for FREE. I guess M$ should pay those public.
DRM, oh yes that is one of the use of TC. But it will be hard to target the consumers market. It will be a great hit on the enterprise level, not soo sure how far it could be feasible with general public.
One good thing about TC's specification is that, it can not do any thing with out the users approval (in this case is the user authenticating). So if I think some application in my machine is trying to access the keys from TPM I could validate which application is trying to access the keys? Are they authentic applications? And above all is it M$;-)? I can approve the transaction only if I am satisfied. So I think itz great!!! only thing I am bothered is the rootkit, we are screwed if the hardware manufactures decided to be OVER smart !!! And the government is interested in achieving a back door to TC !! GOD SAVE US !!!
I am happy to see the open source community working hard and producing some very gud sensible use of TC. Check for TrouSers project @ Sourceforge.net they are gud.
Though DRM is a vital use of Trusted Computing, I guess we should not ignore the potential of TC in other aspect like secure storage, remote attestation and process isolation.
The major factor which makes people to think it is not worth what it say's it can is because of unavailability of TC enabled solutions. Not many companies are into TC and those companies who are into TC do not have a complete TC enabled solutions. Many of them does not have process isolation feature built in it. This feature must be inbuilt in the operating system. I guess we all have to wait for the M$ longhorn OS to release (provided they do it).
What do you guyz say about this !!!!
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I guess M$ has found the new way to get independent reviewers, that too from the hacking community to review their product for FREE. I guess M$ should pay those public.
DRM, oh yes that is one of the use of TC. But it will be hard to target the consumers market. It will be a great hit on the enterprise level, not soo sure how far it could be feasible with general public. One good thing about TC's specification is that, it can not do any thing with out the users approval (in this case is the user authenticating). So if I think some application in my machine is trying to access the keys from TPM I could validate which application is trying to access the keys? Are they authentic applications? And above all is it M$ ;-)? I can approve the transaction only if I am satisfied. So I think itz great!!! only thing I am bothered is the rootkit, we are screwed if the hardware manufactures decided to be OVER smart !!! And the government is interested in achieving a back door to TC !! GOD SAVE US !!!
I am happy to see the open source community working hard and producing some very gud sensible use of TC. Check for TrouSers project @ Sourceforge.net they are gud.
Though DRM is a vital use of Trusted Computing, I guess we should not ignore the potential of TC in other aspect like secure storage, remote attestation and process isolation. The major factor which makes people to think it is not worth what it say's it can is because of unavailability of TC enabled solutions. Not many companies are into TC and those companies who are into TC do not have a complete TC enabled solutions. Many of them does not have process isolation feature built in it. This feature must be inbuilt in the operating system. I guess we all have to wait for the M$ longhorn OS to release (provided they do it). What do you guyz say about this !!!!