bridge, my effort was to focus on both TC components. For TPMs there is a known incumbent on HP machines. For a bios-pre-boot sniffer, I am aware of no incumbent, and am aware of only one product (WEM). So, to me, the HP product in coolers post represents two distinct opportunities for Wave although there are very intertwined as Wave's NIST solution uses the TPM as the RoT.
These are the machines Wave needs to see to roll for WEM (IMO).
SKS' comments that older legacy platforms have unsigned or missigned BIOS making them intractable for WEM short of going threough and upgrading to properly signed BIOS platform-by-legacy-platform. I worry the the $500k WEM deployment slammed square into this truth, and hence the delay in commercial WEM roll-out. That's me, I'm a paranoid sort. I worry that the stated possibility for a second $500k WEM deployment may have put on ice as this whole screwed-up legacy bios issue is worked through. BUT!!, , >> new machines like this HP machine are fertile and ready to go.
So, while DoD e.g. demonstrated forsight in requiring TPMs for some time, much of this may have been made moot as they shipped with mangled bios. The whole notion of 'and 5 million machines go WEM live Q3 PR' blew up when SKS indicated its an engineering nightmare for much of this 'installed base'.
This, IMO, will hasten some machine refresh cycles, but slow WEM development and deployment. So, again, Wave needs these UEFI NIST capable platforms, or they spend a lot of time with AMI etc debugging legacy BIOS.
I would welcome a counterpoint from those more fluent in this or those with their various moles and listening devices regarding the $500k WEM effort.
Yes, point 2 is the exciting component. Presumably for example, one could devise a non-TPM Nist capable/compliant solution (the door is left open on this by NIST), but I see the TPM as the only broadly available extant host for RoT.
The above content is my opinion.
