dangers of TCPA/palladium
Ben Laurie
ben at algroup.co.uk
Sun Aug 11 08:03:54 PDT 2002
AARG!Anonymous wrote:
> Adam Back writes:
>
>
>>- Palladium is a proposed OS feature-set based on the TCPA hardware
>>(Microsoft)
>
>
> Actually there seem to be some hardware differences between TCPA and
> Palladium. TCPA relies on a TPM, while Palladium uses some kind of
> new CPU mode. Palladium also includes some secure memory, a concept
> which does not exist in TCPA.
This is correct. Palladium has "ring -1", and memory that is only
accessible to ring -1 (or I/O initiated by ring -1).
Cheers,
Ben.
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