Anders,
On 8/21/2012 00:45, Anders Rundgren wrote:
On 2012-08-21 05:42, Julien Pierre wrote:
Anders,
On 8/14/2012 20:40, Anders Rundgren wrote:
http://communities.intel.com/community/vproexpert/blog/2012/05/18/intel-ipt-with-embedded-pki-and-protected-transaction-display
Apparently your next PC already has it.
Some PCs based on Intel chips may have it. A few of us out there do not
use Intel chips.
I guess Intel is still "testing the waters" which I think is a good alternative
to politically, commercially and technically awkward standardization efforts
that seem to take forever and in the end often are circumvented by other
developments in the market. Been there, done that :-)
True enough.
But I still can't get very enthusiastic about this. We live in a world
with so many different devices, not just PCs. These mobile devices do
not run Intel chips either.
It is rather a replacement for passwords. Embedded credentials is the
thing that will at last/finally make client-side PKI a main-stream
authentication solution.
That's fine if you only plan on ever logging in from the one device that
has the credentials embedded. It seems a bit restrictive.
Unless you always have that device with you. In which case it's probably
a smartphone, not a PC.
Julien
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