Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[RootOfTrust]

Reality or Sprague Speak?

Decide for oneself.


9/24/13

Unfortunately, the real difficulty is convincing carriers or vendors to loosen their grasp of control. It is an issue of leverage and one that Sprague believes only one entity exists capable of wresting control away for the betterment of the industry.

"The only way we can wrestle control back from Verizon is through a requirement placed on the environment by a player strong enough to do that," he says. "The only player -- emphasis on the word 'only' -- is the U.S. federal space."

http://www.darkreading.com/mobile/why-a-hardware-root-of-trust-matters-for/240161739


3/18/13

Unknown Attendee

Steve, I promise you, my last comment is that there's a lot of speculation on whether the Samsung NOX, a programmer initiative that they announced, there were some other companies mentioned. Does that affect us one way or the other? Are we a part of this?

Steven K. Sprague - Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Director of WaveXpress

So we just view ourselves as a second play in that. So the Trusted Computing phase -- place came into those discussions way later in the process. They started that a couple of years ago and we're pleased to see that they're investing in security as part of the device and we think Trusted Computing will play an extremely important role as -- it's a technology that should eventually become part of those kind of concepts and programs going forward. So clearly, you can't go out and buy the devices yet, handheld devices with TPMs in them. There are a few from Microsoft, there will be a lot more. I think the marketplace will be a little bit surprised by just how broadly that becomes available. If we believe what we're being told by the supply chain and the infrastructure and the players that are out there, I'm a little jaded. They all think it's going to be second quarter sometime. It's not, it's going to take them this whole year. But it will begin to show up in scale. And I think that it's a -- we've seen this process, it's takes a while for everybody to pay attention. But you're going to have a generic capability to put keys in a mobile device. And that will put competition on the existing carriers and infrastructure that controls exclusively that domain today. And it will change the world as we know it. And Wave will have some participation in that puzzle. I think we're doing a lot of the right things to play there but that's a very, very large change that's on its way coming down the pipeline. The technical pieces are in place already.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1284601-wave-systems-management-discusses-q4-2012-results-earnings-call-transcript?page=8&p=qanda&l=last