Replies to post #137230 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[waverider]

So now that the "is we is or is we ain't" question has been answered, (we is) lets get this baby cook'n. Rapid adoption and exponential revenue growth is my mantra hence forth.

[Elan Vital]

OT c m , whew. At first I thought PPM could be Potentially Pathogenic Micro-organism. A non helpful bacteria.
I do like the implications of Part$ Per Million.

Thanks for all your helpful DD

Regards

Elan

[wavxmaster]

Helpfulbacteria

I just listened to it and he(Mundie) mentions TPM and roots of trust at the 31:30 mark!!

http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx

Wavxmaster

Transcripts: 2/3 down on page!

"But we started a few years ago with our friends in the hardware world to put PPMs(said TPM's) in the chips and other things, and this is essentially starting to lay the groundwork, the infrastructure so that we, in fact, can have certificate based routes of trust that start in the hardware and allow us to build this capability up. And so we're still some distance away from really being able to use that in a wholesale way, but I think we're making some progress."

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2007/02-06RSA.mspx

CRAIG MUNDIE: So, there are many additional interesting challenges, even if we want to build this rights management capability. We started down this path, and there was really no effective way to build a hardware route of trust and then work it all the way up the stack into the operating system and the application.

But we started a few years ago with our friends in the hardware world to put PPMs(said TPM's) in the chips and other things, and this is essentially starting to lay the groundwork, the infrastructure so that we, in fact, can have certificate based routes of trust that start in the hardware and allow us to build this capability up. And so we're still some distance away from really being able to use that in a wholesale way, but I think we're making some progress.

One of the things that we're doing is recognizing that if we're going to give people these certificated-based mechanisms, we've got to make it a lot easier for them to move these things around. And so we're building with partners little devices that are just like the keys of your car, they're the keys to your computer, if you will, and you can carry these certificate tokens around, you can have biometric mechanisms to deal with them. And they give us the ability to move these things in a direction where we have a lot more control.

[Vacationhouse]

CM, I am sure the apoplgies will come flooding in.

Intersting flow of events. People at the show also confirm the mention.


For those who need to write CM, here are some samples...

Apology Letters
Wish you hadn't said or done something? A carefully worded apology letter can help smooth things over. :)

http://www.writeexpress.com/apology.htm

[New Wave]

In correspondence with the EE Times writer, he explained via email that Gates, and particularly Mundie, said several things extemporaneously, including mention of TPMs. "Craig sounded that on a bunch of IPsec subjects, he went 'off-transcript' and rambled some."

The writer also found a direct quote in presentation notes stating that "TPMs, embedded directly in chips, provide the means for certificate-based roots of trust." He also said, "Gates used the acronym, but did not spell it out."