Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Is Trusted Computing DRM ?

[Iain Roberts]

----- "Dave Page" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:45:31PM +0100, Peter Colton wrote:
> 
> > I whachted the video below and it refer to a chip that implements
> > "Trusted Computing " on the device. Would this chip be implementing
> > DRM ?
> 
> Trusted Computing is a way of implementing DRM at the hardware level.
> 
> Dave

It is, but it's potentially a lot more besides.

Two excellent resources that seem to lay out the arguments on both sides of the 
debate:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/gsal.TCG.html

Iain.



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