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(FWD) 'LaGrandium' and the Dark Side of 'Trusted' Computing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rsedc@atlantic.gse.rmit.edu.au)
Tue Sep 17 10:28:35 2002
From: rsedc@atlantic.gse.rmit.edu.au
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:38:25 +1000
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,528840,00.asp
'LaGrandium' and the Dark Side of 'Trusted' Computing
By Jason Brook
On Monday, Intel introduced its development forum attendees to LaGrande, a trusted
computing technology slated for inclusion in future Intel processors, perhaps as soon as the
middle of next year.
Intel's LaGrande-based processor chips (AMD plans to include similar features in its own
chips) are supposed to team with a future Microsoft OS technology called Palladium to
deliver a more controllable-and therefore more secure-computing platform than we have
today.
Now, whether these "trusted" platforms will result in more security and control
for the individual computer user remains to be seen.
The trusted computing platform that Intel and Microsoft are countenancing
would be built around a protected memory space in which trusted services run, a
sealed storage mechanism for storing encrypted data, and a facility for providing
operating environment information to outside parties. In Microsoft's Palladium
materials, those outside parties are called "external requestors."
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