Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei () rsasecurity com>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:52:21 -0500
To: Tyler Durden <camera_lumina () hotmail com>, <rah () shipwright com>,
<cryptography () metzdowd com>, <cypherpunks () al-qaeda net>
Subject: RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly
the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of
your computer which you may not have full control over.

Peter Trei


Tyler Durden
> ANyone familiar with computer architectures and chips able to
> answer this 
> question:
>
> That "chip"...is it likely to be an ASIC or is there already
> such a thing as 
> a security network processor? (ie, a cheaper network
> processor that only
> handles security apps, etc...)

> -TD
>
> > From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah () shipwright com>
> > HOUSTON -- Dell Inc. today is expected to add its support to
> an industry
> > effort to beef up desktop and notebook PC security by installing a
> > dedicated chip that adds security and privacy-specific
> features, according
> > to people familiar with its plans.
> >
> > Dell will disclose plans to add the security features known
> as the Trusted
> > Computing Module on all its personal computers. Its support
> comes in the
> > wake of similar endorsements by PC industry giants Advanced
> Micro Devices
> > Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp. and International
> Business Machines
> > Corp. The technology has been promoted by an industry
> organization called
> > the Trusted Computing Group.

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