Trusted Computing Platforms: TCPA Technology in Context
by Siani Pearson, Boris Balacheff, Liqun Chen, David Plaquin, Graeme Proudler
In TCPA We Trust
As considered in Chapter 1, the term “trust” essentially relates to human interactive behavior. The primary elements whose behavior needs to be trusted in the TCPA approach are the people who have designed and written the TCPA specification. This could be seen as the first root of trust from a human angle, so to speak. This tends to be achieved through publication of the specification work, and review by security experts and the industry at large.
Even though a TP is not a secure computer, a TCPA subsystem uses cryptographic processes and protocols that are designed to be secure. It is a generally accepted principle in the Information Security community that the only good security is security that has been vetted by many experts ...
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