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A Practical Guide to Trusted Computing
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A Practical Guide to Trusted Computing

by David Challener, Kent Yoder, Ryan Catherman, David Safford, Leendert Van Doorn
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 30m
English
IBM Press
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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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