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[David G. Koontz]

http://www.nvlabs.in/?q=node/32

Vipin Kumar of of NVLabs had announced a break of TPM and a
demonstration of a break into Bitlocker, (presumably using TPM) to be
presented at Black Hat 2007.  The presentation has been pulled.

Significance to the exchanges on cryptography under this subject stem
from the abstract of the announcement.  It references a paper on
implementing Trusted Computing:

https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/news/Industry_Data/Implementing_Trusted_Computing_RK.pdf

>From Which Kumar interpolates the graph shown in figure 4 to make the
claim that through the end of 2007 there will be 150 million TPM devices
shipped. The preceding paragraph to figure 4 makes a claim of 20 million
TPM devices shipped in 2005.  The paper is produced by Endpoint
Technologies Associates, Inc., and doesn't give references for how the
numbers were promulgated.  The graph shows a number of TPM devices
shipped per year to exceed 250 million by the years 2010.

The point being that's a lot tchotchkes, even if the claimed numbers are
inflated in a fashion reminiscent of how fast the internet was growing
before the internet bubble burst.

Even conservatively there is in the tens of millions of these devices
sold, although we have no indication how many were actually used for
Trusted Computing purposes.

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