http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,528840,00.asp
'LaGrandium' and the Dark Side of 'Trusted' Computing By Jason Brook On Monday, Intel introduced its development forum attendees to LaGrande, a trusted computing technology slated for inclusion in future Intel processors, perhaps as soon as the middle of next year. Intel's LaGrande-based processor chips (AMD plans to include similar features in its own chips) are supposed to team with a future Microsoft OS technology called Palladium to deliver a more controllable-and therefore more secure-computing platform than we have today. Now, whether these "trusted" platforms will result in more security and control for the individual computer user remains to be seen. The trusted computing platform that Intel and Microsoft are countenancing would be built around a protected memory space in which trusted services run, a sealed storage mechanism for storing encrypted data, and a facility for providing operating environment information to outside parties. In Microsoft's Palladium materials, those outside parties are called "external requestors." ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
