Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[svenm]

Question: A recent post highlighted an article in which the possibility of MSFT's dropping NGSCB from Longhorn was raised. There wasn't much discussion on the board which surprised me. I see the possibility as having a distinct possible negative as well as a distinct possible positive: 1) Without NGSCB bulk encryption is no longer possible (does anyone have evidence to the contrary?) and the demand for TPM's could suffer significantly. SKS stated in previous CC's that NGSCB will be the big driver of TPM's in the marketplace. 2) If bulk encryption can be accomplished in another way (LGT, SEM?) then NGSCB may become irrelevant and its dropping could imply MSFT's acceptance of a less than dominant role in hardware security.

I don't claim to have any answers to these questions but I'd be interested in hearing from those that may!

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