TPM & disk crypto

[Ivan Krstić]

Kuehn, Ulrich wrote:
> Who is "we"? In the case of my own system I payed for (so speaking
> for myself) I would like to have such a mechanism to have the system
> prove to me before login that it is not tampered with. The TCG
> approach does not provide this. 

What does "prove" mean here? Does having a hash of the system state for
visual inspection before boot do it?

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Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D

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