[11454] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: dangers of TCPA/palladium
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun Aug 11 11:10:24 2002
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:03:54 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: "AARG!Anonymous" <remailer@aarg.net>
Cc: adam@cypherspace.org, cypherpunks@lne.com,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
AARG!Anonymous wrote:
> Adam Back writes:
>
>
>>- Palladium is a proposed OS feature-set based on the TCPA hardware
>>(Microsoft)
>
>
> Actually there seem to be some hardware differences between TCPA and
> Palladium. TCPA relies on a TPM, while Palladium uses some kind of
> new CPU mode. Palladium also includes some secure memory, a concept
> which does not exist in TCPA.
This is correct. Palladium has "ring -1", and memory that is only
accessible to ring -1 (or I/O initiated by ring -1).
Cheers,
Ben.
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