Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[lugan]

The Wave timeline is developing as follows. I will post it from time to time or on request as additions get made.

Wave Systems Timeline

Wave news archive at www.wave.com

MSFT, many years ago, strong armed INTC into selling off its DRM/Trusted computing patents to a little company that later became...InterTrust.
(IHub, #21281, 11/30/03)

1988 Wave Systems began developing interoperable trusted technologies combining security features for hardware and software.
(http://www.wave.com)

1990 Victor Shear founded InterTrust.
(IHub, #21309, 11/30/03)

1997 Aug 26, Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. advised Wave that it no longer meets the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.'s listing requirements with respect to net tangible assets.
(www.wave.com)
1997 Oct 2, Nasdaq granted Wave a listing on The Nasdaq SmallCap Market following Wave's September 11th hearing before a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel.
(www.wave.com)
1997 Dec 18, Wave Systems Corp announced an agreement with IBM Corporation to find ways to inexpensively incorporate Wave Systems' WaveMeter® chip into PC products.
(www.wave.com)
1998 Jun 11, Aladdin exercised a warrant to purchase 1,000,000 registered shares of Wave Systems Corp. Class A Common Stock, yielding gross proceeds of $2,550,000 to Wave.
(www.wave.com)
1998 Jun 15, Wave announced an agreement with Interactive Magic, a leading developer and publisher of interactive strategy and simulation games, to distribute Interactive Magic's software titles through Wave's innovative WaveSystem.
(www.wave.com)
1998 cJun, CRN article.
(JV, IHub, 11/29/03)
1999 May, Relisting.
(JV, IHub, 11/29/03)
1999 Nov 23, Intel patent # 5,991,399. Method for securely distributing a conditional use private key to a trusted entity on a remote system.
(IHub, #20489, 11/24/03)
1999 Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Microsoft established the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) in an effort to define and promote the goal of trustworthy computing.
(http://www.unclever.com/wavx/DD.htm)
2000 Mar 21, Intel patent # 6,041,122. Method and apparatus for hiding crytographic keys utilizing autocorrelation timing encoding and computation.
(IHub, #20489, 11/24/03)
2000 Mar, AMD announcement.
(JV, IHub, 11/29/03)
2000 Oct 24, Wave Patent # 6,138,239. "A method and system for secure transactions. The method and system comprise a security co-processor and an interface for interfacing the security co-processor to a host computer system." This may cover Microsoft's NGSCB architecture in its entirety
(IHub, #21260, 11/30/03)
2002 Jun 4, Intel patent # 6,401,208. "Method for BIOS authentication prior to BIOS execution."
(IHub, #20489, 11/24/03)
2002 Jun 23, Leak on Palladium. The Microsoft infrastructure formerly known as Palladium and in 2003 called by the awkward acronym NGSCB (pronounced "ing-scub," short for Next-Generation Secure Computing Base).
(IHub, #21292, 11/30/03)(IHub #20416, 11/24/03)
2002 Jun 24, Wave Systems share holders meeting.
(IHub, #21292, 11/30/03)
2002 Jun 26, Palladium is the code name for a set of features in an upcoming version of Windows... It is a new breed of hardware with new capabilities in the operating system, and over time new applications and services... it will provide some very significant things in the way of security, personal privacy, and system integrity.
(IHub, #21307, 11/30/03)
2003 Mar 28, Wave Systems and National Semiconductor Approve Licensing Agreement on Hardware and Software Solution for Trusted Computing Platforms.
(http://www.unclever.com/wavx/DD.htm)
2003 Apr 8, AMD, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft today announced the formation of a new industry group dedicated to embedding trust and security more broadly into computing platforms and devices. The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) will work to create open standards that can be adopted for use in products and solutions across the spectrum of computing, including PCs, PDAs, servers and digital phones, to enable secure and trusted computing that can protect data, privacy, and individual rights. Wave joined TCG.
(http://www.unclever.com/wavx/DD.htm)
2003 Apr 10, Wave Systems Announces Secure Services Support For IBM ThinkPad Notebooks and NetVista Desktops, the Industry's First Trust Infrastructure Services for TCG Platforms Using EMBASSY® Trust Services to be Demonstrated at RSA Conference 2003.
(http://www.unclever.com/wavx/DD.htm)
2003 Jul 31, Wave Systems announced an agreement with Intel Corporation that will help enable both companies to accelerate the development and deployment of trusted applications and services for safer computing on personal computer platforms.
(JV, IHub, 11/29/03)(http://www.unclever.com/wavx/DD.htm)
2003 Oct 14, Intel patent # 6,633,981. Electronic system and method for controlling access through user authentication.
(IHub, #20489, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 19, Wave completed $7.1 million private placement financing.
(www.wave.com)
2003 Nov 24, Wave Systems To Present Trusted Computing Strategy at Red Herring Fall 2003 Conference in Monterey, California.
(www.wave.com)
2004 Q1, The new Pentium 4 processors code-named Prescott to be released. Intel will build LaGrande technology into chips beginning with the upcoming Prescott CPU and support chipset. LaGrande technology will provide capabilities such as protection of secure memory even from DMA (direct memory access) engines.
(IHub #20416, 11/24/03)
2005 Longhorn represents Microsoft's best assessment of how computing will evolve and may be ready about this time, though some say 2006-7. Longhorn w/ NGSCB could be a siginificant driver for the adoption of trusted computing.
(IHub, #21276, 11/30/03)(IHub, #21294, 11/30/03)