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RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Wed Feb 2 10:45:08 2005
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:52:21 -0500
From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
To: "Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina@hotmail.com>, <rah@shipwright.com>,
<cryptography@metzdowd.com>, <cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net>
Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly
the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of
your computer which you may not have full control over.
Peter Trei
Tyler Durden
> ANyone familiar with computer architectures and chips able to=20
> answer this=20
> question:
>=20
> That "chip"...is it likely to be an ASIC or is there already=20
> such a thing as=20
> a security network processor? (ie, a cheaper network=20
> processor that only=20
> handles security apps, etc...)
>=20
> -TD
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> >From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
> >HOUSTON -- Dell Inc. today is expected to add its support to=20
> an industry
> >effort to beef up desktop and notebook PC security by installing a
> >dedicated chip that adds security and privacy-specific=20
> features, according
> >to people familiar with its plans.
> >
> >Dell will disclose plans to add the security features known=20
> as the Trusted
> >Computing Module on all its personal computers. Its support=20
> comes in the
> >wake of similar endorsements by PC industry giants Advanced=20
> Micro Devices
> >Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp. and International=20
> Business Machines
> >Corp. The technology has been promoted by an industry=20
> organization called
> >the Trusted Computing Group.
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