matt25: Google and TPM...
I would urge everybody to at least once think about what a network leveraging hardware tokens is all about.
Matt, you write that Google is a "do-it-themselves" company.
In regard to their notion that all Google notebooks will have a TPM I ask you what the TPM will give them? Why for gawd's sake would Google want to build a Chrome client? What is their economic strategic and/or economic advantage doing so?
I will tell you why they put TPMs on it. They do it because they see the writing on the wall that end-to-end security is a must. They do it because they will want to sell a whole bunch of those netbooks. By the time these netbooks hit the market we may even see the first commercial offerings leveraging TPMs i.e. one or two banks offering secure online banking.
We don't just integrate TPMs to manage TPMs. They actually do serve a purpose.
TPMs have a purpose and that purpose is to provide a means to assure secure booting of the platform and as a secure container for credentials. That is all they do.
So, these Google TPMs will have to be managed, just like all the other TPMed network access devices, Dell PCs, HP PCs, Lenovo PCs, smart phones etc. etc. etc.
So the "common denominator" is going to be the "secure network". Any enterprise will have many different access devices, these enterprises will manage their access devices, incl. Google netbook devices, with a tool like Wave's ERAS does today.
When you say Google is going "to do it by themselves" that is like saying Google is going to roll up the field from behind and do all the development Wave has done over the last 10 years in about 12 months....
Wave has done the central device management, has done the key management server, the authentication server, has done the source code for the ETS client device... boy sure Google is going to do this in the next 12 month... that is like saying mankind will be on Mars in about 10 years.
Let Google build their compilers for their OS and the Wave Google client is almost there!
PS: I intentionally omitted talking about the "services business" connecting 15 billion devices by 2015 (Not by me, statement made by Microsoft)
