Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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This was near the end of the SKS presentation last August at the AFCEA conference. When I first heard it, I thought he was saying that initially Samsung had thought they could go forward without the TPM in hardware, but had been convinced that hardware was better. Now I’m not so sure. Perhaps he was trying to get the DoD to do the convincing – and they haven’t.
http://www.slideshare.net/CatalystIR/wave-s812

“This is the architecture for Trusted Platform Module in an ARM smartphone. Because Microsoft has put the technology into the Microsoft mobile products, we’re now getting it built in to all the major device manufacturers, in through their silicon. And so within 2013 we’ll start to see broad availability of smartphones with Trusted Platform Modules on them. Ask for them. Define the minimum requirements of what you need in hardware. My conversation with people like Samsung is, “Oh, they don’t need hardware, we’ll just emulate the TPM in software.” Really? How do you feel about that? Want to take the fundamental security component of the entire security of your enterprise mobile network and move it to a virtual software image?”