Replies to post #194918 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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"Meyer: This whole thing sounds positive. Could you comment a bit on how Wave might benefit from NHS commercial solutions plans to use the commercial off-the-shelf SED and TPM management products for their High Assurance Platform software distribution.

SKS: So we were about to go tell the world fairly broadly about our role there within the government's HAP conference which then got pushed out until the fall time frame. So, I'll say a little bit instead of making everyone wait for six months. So, there are a couple of things that I think are very simple.

One is that if a computer is going to run multiple operating systems, then really the only way to do data at rest security is to have the data rest security done below the operating systems or in the hardware. And so we think self-encrypting drives is a logical component to the platform and we think can drive tremendous value. Because it's just running independent of what operating system or operating systems you're running on the platform. We think we can have a very valuable role there.

And as I said before, all of these platforms are based on the use of the commercial off-the-shelf Trusted Platform Module. And Wave has the leading software today to do Enterprise management of the TPM. So, we think we're in a strong position to participate. I will say that this is an area where lots of interesting science, lots of very, very cool projects, even some small amounts of revenue, but if you looked at the total deployment of Trusted Execution environments today, it's still a very small number.

The goal is how do we take that capability that's been pioneered for use in our government and military networks and use it on our consumer PCs, to help secure us on our day-to-day activities? We believe we can play an enormous role in that process. So that's where our focus is. I think that we bring an interesting piece to the puzzle as do many other companies. This is not a solution that's going to be done by any one single company and anybody that says they have the whole thing they have the whole thing wrapped up. This is going to be a multi-vendor solution to achieve. We'll bring our expertise in TMP management, the hardware management, the self-encrypting drive management, some of the ancient history that Wave has had in trusted application distribution really benefits us in this space."