[Cryptography] Cheap forensic recorder

Phillip Hallam-Baker phill at hallambaker.com
Sun Mar 1 08:52:58 EST 2015


On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Emin Gün Sirer <el33th4x0r at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Unless the hardware+platform are attested to via a TPM or similar
> technology, everything else is (well-intentioned) theater
>

If I am using a Raspberry Pi with a clean O/S install from a source I have
checked the thumbprint of, I have a lot more control than is possible using
a TPM.

The TPM is really designed to solve a different set of problems to do with
running the system for a long period of time. All I am doing here is
reading some Web pages with Chromium.
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