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Re: TPM & disk crypto
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Fri Oct 13 09:15:45 2006
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:31:02 -0400
From: =?UTF-8?B?SXZhbiBLcnN0acSH?= <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
To: "Kuehn, Ulrich" <Ulrich.Kuehn@telekom.de>
Cc: jamesd@echeque.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <490A625B3DFD8A45B4A7F1ABA8DEA8B401C30A7A@S4DE9JSAAMU.ost.t-com.de>
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@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D
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