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Internet of Things for Architects
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Internet of Things for Architects

by Perry Lea
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
13h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Key management and trusted platform modules

Public and private keys are critical to ensuring a secure system. The keys themselves need proper management to ensure their safety. There are hardware standards for key security and one particularly popular mechanism is the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The specification for TPM was written by the Trusted Computing Group and is an ISO and IEC standard. The current specification is TPM 2.0 released in September of 2016. Computer assets sold to the DoD require TPM 1.2.

A TPM is a discrete hardware component with a secret RSA key burned into the device at manufacturing. 

Generally, a TPM is used to hold, secure, and manage other keys for services such as disk encryption, Root of Trust booting, verifying ...

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ISBN: 9781788470599