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TPM

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Trusted Computing Group; Trusted Computing Platform Alliance; Trustworthy Computing; TSS

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The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a chip implemented according to a specification developed by the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) or the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). The TCPA was formed to create a specification for a security chip integrated in a PC. The founders included IBM, Microsoft, HP, Compaq and Intel.

Background

In 1998, it was already obvious that PC computer security was going to be important, especially for eBusiness. As a result, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, HP, and Compaq joined together in the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) to create a standard that could be used to generate a cryptographic coprocessor for use in PCs. TCPA quickly grew to over a hundred member companies. The TPM 1.1b specification was released in February of 2002, and TPMs started shipping shortly thereafter in IBM Thinkpad laptops, and later by other OEMs, including...

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Recommended Reading

  1. Trusted Computing Group (2006) Tpm main specification.

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  2. Trusted Computing Group (2009) Features under consideration for tpm next. http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/files/resource_files/0CD79678-1D09-3519-ADDAFD2ED5450D0A/FeaturesFINAL.pdf

  3. OpenTC (2009) Vtpm architecture

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  4. OpenTC (2009) Welcome to opentc http://www.opentc.net/

  5. Strasser M (October 2004) Project: software-based tpm emulator - summary http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tpm-emulator/

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  1. Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, 20723, Laurel, MD, USA

    David Challener

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Henk C. A. van Tilborg

  2. Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4422, USA

    Sushil Jajodia

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Challener, D. (2011). TPM. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_718

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