TPM

These are my notes taken from learning about TPMs from this source material: https://courses.cs.vt.edu/cs5204/fall10-kafura-BB/Papers/TPM/Intro-TPM-2.pdf These are just excerpts and notes, that I have captured for my recollection and understanding, from the chapter A common design goal across this diversity however, is the provision of some degree of secure processing, implemented in secure hardware. The Trusted Platform Module, or TPM, is similar to a smart card device in that it is a small footprint low cost security module typically implemented as a tamper resistant integrated circuit (IC). The TPM however, has been specifically designed to be a building block for trusted computing ...