Something fishy's going on (News.com) [LWN.net]

Bruce Schneier has an article on News.com looking at a document, published by the Trusted Computing Group, on how systems with a Trusted Platform Module should be implemented. He likes that the document emphasizes the security applications, and directs implementers away from coercive implementations or those which hinder interoperability. "But there's something fishy going on. Microsoft is doing its best to stall the document, and to ensure that it doesn't apply to Vista (formerly known as Longhorn), Microsoft's next-generation operating system." (See this LWN article for background on TPM chips and how they will be supported under Linux).

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Something fishy's going on (News.com)

Posted Aug 31, 2005 15:51 UTC (Wed) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

If, at the debut of Vista, because of this behavior, the market hoists a collective international gesture in the direction of Redmond, then the document can be said to have applied to Vista, at least in a negative sense.

Something fishy's going on (News.com)

Posted Aug 31, 2005 16:34 UTC (Wed) by thyrsus (subscriber, #21004) [Link]

I agree: the "market", that is, those who choose what to implement and how, will determine whether the document applies. No one building a secure environment can specify "we will use secure components, except for those available before date X", regardless of the significance of date X. If they are not functional or secure in themselves, some further component of the environment will have to make them functional and secure.

Such as your Linux based firewalls, anti-virus filters, etc. :-)

But above all, your security policies and practices.

Something fishy's going on (News.com)

Posted Sep 1, 2005 1:31 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

No, I mean consumers. While large corporations may see some value in bowing to Redmond, I, for one, hope that consumers reject this stuff utterly.