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Trusted Computing and Open Source

In a recent paper on the forthcoming GPL version 3, Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen mention briefly the potential tension between trusted computing and the ope…

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Updated TC literature

I have updated the TC literature section down below. If you know any other sources that deal with important technological advances in the area of TC or with leg…

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CIS talk presentation: different formats

In addition to the slides of my recent talk about trusted computing at the CIS in Stanford, there is also an audio version available. Furthermore, I have creat…

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CIS talk slides

The slides of my recent talk about trusted computing at the CIS in Stanford are now available online.…

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Allocating trust within TC

One of the features offered by TC is that it transforms trust in entities into trust in components (see here on pp. 644-645 for an explanation). In such an appr…

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Local attestation

One of the criticisms raised against trusted computing is that it solves some potential problems of the future without doing the homework first that precedes th…

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Trackback spamming

Some readers may remember that we used to have a big comment spam problem at CIS blogs (see here  and, more generally, here). Now that this problem has been fix…

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Talk on trusted computing

On March 28, 2005, I will give a talk on the legal and policy implications of trusted computing at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. M…

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Property-based Remote Attestation

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi and Christian Stüble have recently published a paper  that builds, in some regards, upon an earlier paper by Klaus Kursawe and Christian Stüb…

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Semantic Remote Attestation

So I am slowly catching up with the TC debate (more to come soon).  Last May, Vivek Haldar gave a very interesting presentation at the 3rd USENIX Virtual Machin…