Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Jakes Dad--I'm surprised your terrific find elicited ZERO replies! When the learning disabled street finally figures out that WAVEs TPM software on BOTH the PC and SERVER side is head and shoulders ahead of any potential competition...when the learning disabled street figures this out, what happens to WAVEs share price? When the learning disabled street figures out that WAVE already has a LOCK on DELL and INTEL, what happens to the share price? What happens to the share price when the learning disabled street figures out that WAVE is going to be the defacto platform for Trusted Web Services?

I mean just read these succulent passages regarding the future of TPMs! Was S. Sprague engaged in hyperbole when he spoke of future WAVE UBIQUITY!?


http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11518
"PCs currently using this chip include the recent Dell Optiplex series, IBM ThinkVantage and various laptop models from HP/Compaq, Samsung and Toshiba. Later on, other hardware including multimedia phones, PDA's, portable audio devices and so on are expected to include TPM support. "


"However, while TPM may make our PCs more secure from hackers and data theft, the entertainment industry will almost certainly make the most of TPM by taking more control over their content."

Eventually the TPM will be built into the main processor itself, and if the trusted computing group has its way then you will find one in every piece of hardware you own, from mobile phones to TV set top boxes to children's toys.


http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11518


Some PC vendors now ship PCs with a Trusted Computing chip
Posted by Seán Byrne on 21 March 2005 - 00:00 - Source: BBC News - Technology


A while back, some may have heard about the trusted platform module (TPM) coming to processors or as extra hardware add-ons. Well apparently several computer manufacturers are already selling PCs with TPM, but currently as an extra chip until the time comes when CPUs will have native TPM support. PCs currently using this chip include the recent Dell Optiplex series, IBM ThinkVantage and various laptop models from HP/Compaq, Samsung and Toshiba. Later on, other hardware including multimedia phones, PDA's, portable audio devices and so on are expected to include TPM support.

TPM aims to overcome the vulnerabilities of software based encryption and security by handling this all at the hardware level. For example if Windows would only allow digitally signed software to run, then viruses and malicious software could easily be done away with or at least made much more difficult to create or spread. Data stored on the hard drive could be encrypted and decrypted at the hardware level using smartcard authentication. However, while TPM may make our PCs more secure from hackers and data theft, the entertainment industry will almost certainly make the most of TPM by taking more control over their contentr. As a result, hardware level DRM will make it much more difficult for users to get around the restrictions.

For the time being, users of PCs with the TPM chip may not even know that their PC has this unexpected extra feature as the current Windows Operating systems do not make use of this yet. The only way one can make use of TPM is with software that supports TPM such as HP's ProtectTools. However Microsoft will offer support for TPM in its next Windows release code-named "Longhorn", known as Next Generation Secure Computing Base.

You can now buy "trusted computers", but can we really trust the PC vendors, asks technology analyst Bill Thompson.

If you have recently bought an IBM ThinkVantage computer, a Dell Optiplex, or one of a whole range of laptops from Toshiba, HP/Compaq or Samsung then you may have got more for your money than you realised.

Inside your shiny new PC is an extra chip called the trusted platform module (TPM) that can be used for a range of hardware-based security features.

Eventually the TPM will be built into the main processor itself, and if the trusted computing group has its way then you will find one in every piece of hardware you own, from mobile phones to TV set top boxes to children's toys.

But for the moment it is a separate piece of hardware, providing enhanced security features to programs that know how to use them.

And as part of a well-designed network system, it can provide a lot more security than we enjoy today.

A big advantage of the TPM is that it is hardware-based.

Read the full article here.


With Microsoft releasing critical security patches quite often now, I am sure they will be looking forward to making use of hardware level security such as hardware based digital signing and authentication. However I don’t like the idea of using TPM against the user to prevent them from doing certain tasks such as attempting to convert a DRM protected track into another format that would suit their portable player. It is one thing for a company to enforce restrictions on their employee’s PCs, but enforcing restrictions on user’s home PCs and other equipment is going a bit to the extreme in my opinion.