TCPA (Trusted Computing Platform Alliance) and Palladium Technology
Keywords to do googling - yahooing: TCPA, TCG, NGSCB, Palladium
Sites:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html Ross Andrsen TCPA FAQs in English
http://www.complessita.it/tcpa/ Ross Andrsen TCPA FAQs in Italian
www.againsttcpa.com in english
www.no1984.org in English, few links are still empty (or dead?)
www.radiolinux.info in English
http://www.italy.indymedia.org/archives ... re_id=2655 in italian
http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=58502&r=PI in italian
http://alex321.splinder.com in Italian
http://www.alessandropagano.net in Italian and English, detailed IT-info
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/mai ... d_com.html
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/15/trust ... rd_drives/
mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/stamp/CS265/projects/.../TrustedComputing.ppt
Trusted Computing:
Project promoted by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) - Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD to force PC users to use exclusively "trusted" products. You can't decide by yourself any longer what is trusted and what not-trusted. But it isn't necessary, as ptb will decide for you. In effect, you are being removed from complete effective control of your PC, which is passed on to TCG or to whoever had written software which you use (security kernel "Nexus" - chip Fritz and NCA - verification of authorization / registration or revocation of registered numbers; re-certification). Nexus will work with CPU to impede one TC-application reading data of other TC-application - Lagrand Technology (LT) for CPU Intel and TrustZone for ARM.
The system is indeed protected from everything what ptb consider potentially damaging to user. Authors claim to increase our security and tighten hold on pirates. But this project introduces direct internet censorship, elimination of free software (being obliged to pay for authorization codes no authorized software will be free), no more possibility to share files (bye-bye blogs!), and to where to buy PC-products (CD/DVD will be not playable outside of purchase region and likely not bar-able to other users - you will be not able to use back-up copy)
This scenario may seem being Orwellian, as Palladium computers will have chip Fritz (smartcard and hardware key on motherboard) which will decide what is good to you - from software and files you store locally to internet pages you visit. Chip is named Fritz in honour of senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina who worked hard in Congress to make TC an obligatory component of any electronic appliance http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature ... index.html - U.S. prepares to invade your hard drive.
TC could be used for major control of access to confidential documents. Windows server 2003 embodies "embryos" of this feature as "Enterprise rights management":
-automatic destruction of documents within certain timeframes
- company's internal docs will be readable only by authorized PC from inside company (and for certain period of time) and insider info will be not exportable via e-mails, attachments (useful for whistleblowers indeed!) .
The same will apply to @-accounts of "armed peacekeepers" and they will be not able to send insider info to newspapers.
- your superior will be able to delete any dangerous @-mail from its receiver mailbox, no matter to whom you sent it.
- standartization of micropayments, e-payments and e-billings; payments per minute of audio heard and per page of book read which will lead to skyrocketing of our bills to pay (http://www.broadbanduk.org/news/bsg_pre ... _07_03.htm)
History of internet pricing: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/his ... ions1b.pdf
On-line purchases for non-TC users (Mac and Linux fans) will be questionable at least.
Student Mario Strasser from ETH, Zurich made his semester thesis on Linux TPM emulator:
Original link was here:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tpm-emulator for Linux
I checked it today - it doesn't work any longer - But it still works when you type in yahoo
"The project aims to create a fully working Trusted Platform Module (TPM) emulator"
And display results in a cashe mode
Pdf file: http://www.infsec.ethz.ch/people/psevin ... 0emulator'
Mirror here: www.sirrix.de/content/pages/Projects.htm
From http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html:
The informational self-determination isn't existing anymore, it's not possible to save, copy, create, program, ..., the data like you want. This applies for privates as for companies
- The free access to the IT/Software market is completely prevented for anyone except the big companies, the market as we know it today will get completely destroyed
- Restrictions in the usage of owned hardware would apply
- The liberty of opinion and the free speech on the internet would finally be eliminated
- The own rights while using IT-technologies are history.
- The national self-determination of the der particular countries would be fully in the hands of the USA
- Probably the world would break into two digital parts (Countries that express against TCPA)
List of Hardware TC-compliant
http://www.no1984.org/Hardware_TC-compliant
List of Software TC-compliant
http://www.no1984.org/Software_TC-compliant
list of known Trusted Platform Module (TPM) manufacturers and implementations
http://www.tonymcfadden.net/tpmvendors.html
articles:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing
America's war on the web - by Neil Mackay The Sunday Herald April 2, 2006
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4354
www.sundayherald.com/54975 - original
Transmeta integriert TCPA-Funktionen in Crusoe-Prozessor
Kryptographie-Beschleunigung und gesch
Keywords to do googling - yahooing: TCPA, TCG, NGSCB, Palladium
Sites:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html Ross Andrsen TCPA FAQs in English
http://www.complessita.it/tcpa/ Ross Andrsen TCPA FAQs in Italian
www.againsttcpa.com in english
www.no1984.org in English, few links are still empty (or dead?)
www.radiolinux.info in English
http://www.italy.indymedia.org/archives ... re_id=2655 in italian
http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=58502&r=PI in italian
http://alex321.splinder.com in Italian
http://www.alessandropagano.net in Italian and English, detailed IT-info
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/mai ... d_com.html
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/15/trust ... rd_drives/
mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/stamp/CS265/projects/.../TrustedComputing.ppt
Trusted Computing:
Project promoted by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) - Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD to force PC users to use exclusively "trusted" products. You can't decide by yourself any longer what is trusted and what not-trusted. But it isn't necessary, as ptb will decide for you. In effect, you are being removed from complete effective control of your PC, which is passed on to TCG or to whoever had written software which you use (security kernel "Nexus" - chip Fritz and NCA - verification of authorization / registration or revocation of registered numbers; re-certification). Nexus will work with CPU to impede one TC-application reading data of other TC-application - Lagrand Technology (LT) for CPU Intel and TrustZone for ARM.
The system is indeed protected from everything what ptb consider potentially damaging to user. Authors claim to increase our security and tighten hold on pirates. But this project introduces direct internet censorship, elimination of free software (being obliged to pay for authorization codes no authorized software will be free), no more possibility to share files (bye-bye blogs!), and to where to buy PC-products (CD/DVD will be not playable outside of purchase region and likely not bar-able to other users - you will be not able to use back-up copy)
This scenario may seem being Orwellian, as Palladium computers will have chip Fritz (smartcard and hardware key on motherboard) which will decide what is good to you - from software and files you store locally to internet pages you visit. Chip is named Fritz in honour of senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina who worked hard in Congress to make TC an obligatory component of any electronic appliance http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature ... index.html - U.S. prepares to invade your hard drive.
TC could be used for major control of access to confidential documents. Windows server 2003 embodies "embryos" of this feature as "Enterprise rights management":
-automatic destruction of documents within certain timeframes
- company's internal docs will be readable only by authorized PC from inside company (and for certain period of time) and insider info will be not exportable via e-mails, attachments (useful for whistleblowers indeed!) .
The same will apply to @-accounts of "armed peacekeepers" and they will be not able to send insider info to newspapers.
- your superior will be able to delete any dangerous @-mail from its receiver mailbox, no matter to whom you sent it.
- standartization of micropayments, e-payments and e-billings; payments per minute of audio heard and per page of book read which will lead to skyrocketing of our bills to pay (http://www.broadbanduk.org/news/bsg_pre ... _07_03.htm)
History of internet pricing: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/his ... ions1b.pdf
On-line purchases for non-TC users (Mac and Linux fans) will be questionable at least.
Student Mario Strasser from ETH, Zurich made his semester thesis on Linux TPM emulator:
Original link was here:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tpm-emulator for Linux
I checked it today - it doesn't work any longer - But it still works when you type in yahoo
"The project aims to create a fully working Trusted Platform Module (TPM) emulator"
And display results in a cashe mode
Pdf file: http://www.infsec.ethz.ch/people/psevin ... 0emulator'
Mirror here: www.sirrix.de/content/pages/Projects.htm
From http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html:
The informational self-determination isn't existing anymore, it's not possible to save, copy, create, program, ..., the data like you want. This applies for privates as for companies
- The free access to the IT/Software market is completely prevented for anyone except the big companies, the market as we know it today will get completely destroyed
- Restrictions in the usage of owned hardware would apply
- The liberty of opinion and the free speech on the internet would finally be eliminated
- The own rights while using IT-technologies are history.
- The national self-determination of the der particular countries would be fully in the hands of the USA
- Probably the world would break into two digital parts (Countries that express against TCPA)
List of Hardware TC-compliant
http://www.no1984.org/Hardware_TC-compliant
List of Software TC-compliant
http://www.no1984.org/Software_TC-compliant
list of known Trusted Platform Module (TPM) manufacturers and implementations
http://www.tonymcfadden.net/tpmvendors.html
articles:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing
America's war on the web - by Neil Mackay The Sunday Herald April 2, 2006
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4354
www.sundayherald.com/54975 - original
Transmeta integriert TCPA-Funktionen in Crusoe-Prozessor
Kryptographie-Beschleunigung und gesch