[Cryptography] Millions of high-security crypto keys crippled by newly discovered flaw

Henry Baker hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Tue Oct 17 11:24:59 EDT 2017


At 06:25 PM 10/16/2017, John Gilmore wrote:
>I don't need to point out to THIS audience the irony in the "Trusted" platform module that nobody can actually trust (or verify).
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>We've been complaining about that for a decade or more.

But TPM's are "responsible" ;-)

Responsible, adj.  Trustworthy, mature.

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Tell me again why I need a "TPM", when its design is secret, its software is secret, and no one I trust is allowed to audit it?

Perhaps there's a reason why it has a TLA ?



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