Ebay owned paypal, and paypal has been doing a much better job than passport so far. However, paypal is still a software based consumer transaction services. By 2007, if 80% of the computer will be trusted, Ebay / paypal can use wave technology to develop their owned trusted network which will be far better security than that of passport today. Again, that is only my guess, and I could be wrong. Cheers.
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Steven Sprague made the following comment on 11/13/2003
http://www.unclever.com/wavx/WAVX3Q03.html SKS: And to be fair, not much. And the reason I say not much is because other than the full-page ads that IBM and HP are running in major newspapers, which you might trip over, the reality is the bulk of these platforms today are targeted at the enterprise. And the reason for that is that the infrastructure doesn't exist for the consumer market today. So for example, you don't want to be the first consumer who encrypted all the data on your machine with keys held on your TPM and then have a mistake happen in your computer and your keys went way, and there’s no backup and recovery mechanism. Who do you call? The beauty in the enterprise is that there’s somebody who is worrying about that for you. So the objective of the industry I believe is to implement in the enterprise first. That's the easiest place to have first adoption because there are professionals who manage the installed base of computers and can implement the services, and then the second step is to broaden this to the consumer market. And I think it will be very interesting to see how fast it moves to consumer, because the demand in the consumer market for strong authentication - for access to my Quicken, or my e-mail, or payments for my eBay auctions - is very strong.
But the rest of the infrastructure has to be there. Understand today there are companies who bought thousands of trusted computers, who’ve deployed them inside their enterprise, who have no backup and recovery mechanism for the keys. And there's aspects of that there are a little scary, but fortunately the technology is coming along to help satisfy that. So we’re at the early stages of that and we certainly hope that over the course of the next six months that you'll see much more presence in a choice to go buy a trusted computer. Realistically, there's been very few units that are available in the marketplace. It's been the IBM ThinkPads and desktop products, then the HP products and now only recently the Intel motherboard products, and almost all of those have been targeted at the enterprise customer.
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