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Trusted Computing: The Complete Documentation

• This category contains 7 Papers
• The last paper was added on 2007-03-26 (YYYY-MM-DD)

Clarifying Misinformation on TCPA

Published on October 2002, by David Safford, ©IBM Research.

In a recent papers, Ross Anderson, Bill Arbaugh, and Lucky Green criticize TCPA and Palladium claiming that they are a disaster for the consumer, serving only to enforce Digital Rights Management (DRM). These papers have incited widespread consumer concern, even leading to an anti-TCPA website calling for letter writing campaigns to TCPA member companies.

Need for TCPA (The)

Published on October 2002, by David Safford, ©IBM Research.

The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) has produced open specifications for a security chip and related software interfaces. The TCPA chip is designed to provide client machines with a minimal but essential hardware base for client side security. Recent papers have attacked the TCPA specification out of ignorance of its goals and capabilities. This paper summarizes what the TCPA chip does, gives examples of important applications of the chip, and shows why these applications are critical to client side security.

TCPA; What's wrong; What's right and what to do about (The)

Published on July 20, 2002, by William A. Arbaugh, ©University of Maryland.

We are all aware of the criticisms that the TCPA has received. Ross Anderson did a good job of explaining the problems in an abstract fashion, but I felt that there were some things left out (Privacy concerns). I also wanted to see if the TCPA could provide the good things- mandatory access control, integrity protection, and secure storage without the bad things. What I found will appear in an article in my security column of IEEE Computer next month. However, I wanted to briefly mention the findings before hand.

Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions

Published on July 2003, by Ross Anderson, ©University of Cambridge.

TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an initiative led by Intel. Their stated goal is a new computing platform for the next century that will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.' Palladium is software that Microsoft says it plans to incorporate in future versions of Windows; it will build on the TCPA hardware, and will add some extra features. Palladium has recently been renamed NGSCB while TCPA has been renamed TCG; however I'll continue to refer to them here by their original names as they are still more widely used.

Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) Main Specification Version 1.1b

Published on February 22, 2002, by David Chan, ©Compaq Computer Corporation, He.

TCPA wishes to thank members of the PKI, PC Specific and Conformance Workgroup who contributed expertise and text to this document. Thanks must be given to the members of the TCPA Technical Committee who were Michael Angelo, Boris Balacheff, Josh Benaloh, David Challener, Dhruv Desai, Paul England, David Grawrock, Bob Meinschein, Manny Novoa, Graeme Proudler, Jim Ward and Monty Wiseman.

Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) Trusted Platform Module Protection Profile

Published on July 01, 2002, by TCPA Membership, ©Compaq Computer Corporation, He.

This section contains document management and overview information. The PP Identification provides the labeling and descriptive information necessary to identify, catalogue, register, and cross-reference a PP. The PP Overview summarizes the profile in narrative form and provides sufficient information for a potential user to determine whether the PP is of interest. The overview can also be used as a standalone abstract for PP catalogues and registers.

Trusted Computing, Peer-To-Peer Distribution, and the Economics of Pirated Entertainment

Published on May 29, 2003, by Stuart E. Schechter, Rachel A. Greenstadt, and Michael D. Smith, ©Harvard University.

The entertainment industry, facing a formidable threat from peer-topeer piracy networks, is exploring every possible means to attack these networks. The industry is also employing defensive strategies to protect media and media players from those who would extract and copy their content. These content protection systems depend on the computer industry's newly announced ‘trusted computing' technologies. While ‘trusted computing' technologies may better protect media and media players from content extraction by pirates, we assert that the very same technologies can be employed to better protect pirates and their peer-to-peer distribution networks from the entertainment industry.