Chapter 12
Trusted Computing and Secure Storage
In a world of government regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and overall sensitivity to privacy, it is important that people be able to secure data. However, when a hard disk is available to an attacker (such as when a laptop is stolen), software cannot easily hide the keys necessary to provide security. This is particularly the case since the things a person needs to authenticate to a machine have to be remembered easily. The software is unable to defend itself against a dictionary attack, and although a removable device may be a good solution to this problem, in practice these devices get lost or broken. Often this happens when ...
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