Replies to post #212649 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[New Wave]

Hi alea,

I've lately been thinking the BIOS Integrity application linked to a TPM could be the catalyst that finally launches deployment. It goes further than providing mere machine authentication as an extra layer of security for the network. Conceptually, it could be the impenetrable security gate that alerts the network to malware and other nasty attacks before they can breach the wall via boot-up.

I plan to attend the NSA conference in September and hope to learn a lot more about the direction for TPMs and how soon their use could take flight.

Take a look at this. It's over a year old but shows the direction in which the NSA has been headed:
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/host_networking_brochure.pdf

[Alladinator]

In your analogy, would SKS represent God, or do you hold that the wing(and every other living thing along with organized information known as DNA) essentially created themselves? If the latter, maybe we would would do well to rid ourselves of SKS and let the technology evolve on it's own. So crazy it just might work.

[Elan Vital]

aleajactaest, that flight analogy was very good. Hopefully we won't have to wait 140million years for this to take off. It seems that way sometimes.

You write:
".....some marginal but useful product which induces folks to switch their TPMs on."


I wonder about this all the time. Close to home, my son has an Dell enterprise laptop provided by his small company. They all do, and none of them have activated the TPM. He's a smart guy, lives in Boston, his girlfriend is a Harvard grad, he hangs out with MIT guys and yet he doesn't seem interested in "complicating" something which "seems to be working just fine".


....maybe after "the unthinkable" happens.


Regards

Elan