
3. Why are open standards important in security?
4. Why would IBM be an advocate for open standards? Why would it
change its proprietary ESS 1.0 chip—which it had already sold in
some of its PL300 desktops and T23 ThinkPad notebooks, and
which it had paid a Common Criteria Testing Laboratory to eval-
uate—so that it was available as open source?
5. What does trusted computing mean?
6. What is the trusted platform module?
7. Describe the major differences between ESS 1.0 and ESS 2.0.
8. How can the trusted boot functions prevent the unauthorized mod-
ification of the operating system?
9. What is the purpose of the endorsement key? The storage root key? ...