Replies to post #61920 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[go-kitesurf]

[edited] unixguy, tripwire checks files for changes. This product does something totally different than WaveXpress. Have you even bothered to go to www.wavexpress.com ???

Tripwire doesn't prevent files from being tampered with, it only identified changes after the tampering or altering. This does not secure anything. It just tells you something is wrong.

WaveXpress is a content distribution platform to enable content owners to quickly and more easily and more cost effectively distribute content, or filtered content, to an end user, or millions of end users at once. This content can be encrypted, or not. It supports the trusted computing platform's TPM chip for the *preservation* of data integrity.

Totally different.

[edit]I'm feeling frisky today. WaveXpress can do many things:

1-send a virus patch to millions of PC users instantly
2-distribute a MSFT o/s upgrade to millions of users instantly
3-send content over cable, wireless to a user
4-send encrypted content
5-allow home users to set up inexpensive datacasting centers
6-broadcast emergency messages to public transportation, cars, homes, news stations instantly to warn of environmental danger, escaped convicts, etc.
7-as CM posted yesterday, the world trade center blueprints could have been instantly sent to firefighters saving lives
8-a mfg company can distribute a CAD assembly to all their 20-50 tier one suppliers at once, globally, enabling them to all bid on the job at the exact same time
9-etc etc etc

by leveraging the TPM and Trusted Computing architecture, this data can be protected so that only authenticated and trusted receivers can unencrypt and view the data. The data can be unencrypted only for a period of time then destroy itself. It can be rent-to-own, tracking how many times it was used. It can be charged "per hour" for games, where an Xbox user is charged $3 an hour until they own it outright. In the case of the mfg. company (#8), that company can:

1) send their assembly out to 20 people
2) know that only those 20 people can view it
3) know that only those 20 people can view it in certain geographic locations (in other words, you don't want someone accessing your proprietary data while located in a competitor's office)

[go-kitesurf]

unixguy, tripwire is a joke compared to trusted computing. Again, as per my last post, the tripwire product does not prevent any tampering, it just keeps track of any tampering telling you something's wrong. Please visit:

www.trustedcomputing.org
www.trustedcomputinggroup.org

You have a lot of reading to do and I/we have educated enough people to know that you should show a little effort. If you know anything about TC, you would realize how off the tripwire question is. Please do some research.