Chapter 2
Design Goals of the Trusted Platform Module
In addition to privacy support, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) technical committee had a number of design goals for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). It was important that the design have the capability to do the following:
- Securely report the environment that booted
- Securely store data
- Securely identify the user and system (without encountering privacy concerns)
- Support standard security systems and protocols
- Support multiple users on the same system while preserving security among them
- Be produced inexpensively
Of course, “secure” is a relative term. Given enough resources, anything can be hacked. The relative security of personal computers (PCs) prior to TCG was fairly low, so any ...
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