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Enabling Intel TXT in Fedora

Enabling Intel TXT in Fedora

Posted Apr 8, 2010 9:02 UTC (Thu) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289)
In reply to: Enabling Intel TXT in Fedora by michaeljt
Parent article: Enabling Intel TXT in Fedora

As you point out, _most_ of the CPU features are documented. Many others are not, and nothing prevents Intel from adding a backdoor in the CPU, which of course you would not detect by "testing" the documented features. Hardware trust is a very complicated problem.


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