Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Microsoft research mentioned Wave Systems and its infrastructure that can attest hardware and establish identity.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:D0wPB1P57CoJ:www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/101.pdf+embass...

The EMBASSY platform binds machines to cryptographic keys embedded in device hardware. These approaches may thwart Sybil attacks, but they implicitly rely on the authority of a trusted agency (such as ICANN or Wave Systems ) to establish identity.



Embassy mentioned on MSD2D

http://www.msd2d.com/Content/Product_viewitem_03.aspx?section=Server&category=E-Commerce&id=....

WAVE SYSTEMS CORP.
EMBASSY EMBASSY (EMBedded Application Security SYstem) is an inexpensive, open-system hardware and software-based device that enables secure transaction processing and distributed information metering in users’ PCs and other end-user devices. EMBASSY provides a low-cost, secure e-commerce solution that enables the personal computer to assume an important new role in the evolving digital economy. By moving secure transactions to the desktop, EMBASSY brings "Trust" to the point where transactions actually take place, the end-user PC, thereby creating a "Trusted Client."


Description of Wave Systems underscoring the importance of CSP

Wave Systems is a leading software vendor delivering trusted computing applications, services, and infrastructures across multiple trusted platforms. The EMBASSY Trust Suite provides the industry’s only multi-vendor TPM-based applications and development products. Through its TCG-enabled CSP and Toolkit, Wave is assisting its customers with evolutionary growth and interoperability while relying on broadly supported industry initiatives. This philosophy allows application developers to easily enable and support the Trusted Computing initiatives.