July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
11h 1m
English
After the platform is created and the TPM is correctly incorporated, the platform becomes a TP. From this point, entities can start to use the platform's trusted mechanisms in order to benefit from the added security. The first entity that has to interact with a TP is its owner, in order to initialize a set of parameters and thereby enable the trusted mechanisms.
Whereas the previous steps in the life of a TP mainly implied a direct physical communication with the TPM, this is the point where the communication starts to become more “abstract.” In other words, software layers are involved between the communicating entity (TPM owner, user, or third party) and the TPM. This implies that commands ...
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