Note - change of plans, Adir's lecture about firewalls had to be
postponed!
Next Monday (10/5/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once
again meet to hear Orr Dunkelman talk about:
TCPA
The Trusted Computing Alliance
Abstract:
Several years ago, major hardware and software companies have formed the
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA). The group was aimed at
producing a more secure and trustworthy computing:
* A computer can check its own security and trust level (viruses and
worms could be easily found and identified)
* A computer could prove its security level to other computers
* A computer could prove it is not ripping the CD to the CD
* and many more
As trusted computing in a sufficient level to satisfy the above
conditions, could only be achieved with dedicated hardware on each and
every computer, the basic idea is to have a Trust Platform Module (TPM) on
any digital machine. Moreover, the TPMs must be automatically activated,
and without a way for the user to disable them. This, however, raises
suspicion, as the TCPA companies (now known as TCG), can implement
whatever they like in the TPM.
The lecture will cover the need for TPMs and the general mechanism of
tracking and proving trust. We intend to discuss some of its technical
problems, and if time permits the philosophical problems which arise.
We meet in the Technion, Taub 3. See http://www.haifux.org.org/where/html
for arrival details.
Attendance is free, and you are all invited!
Future lectures include:
100'th lecture party + Staying in Linux - Quick and Dirty Bash by Eli
Billauer on 17/5/2004
Porting XFree86 drivers to an IA64 based ccNUMA beast : a war story, by
Gilad Ben-Yossef on 24/5/2004
The Digital Darkroom with GIMP - Yoni Rabkin Katzenell on 7/6/2004
LyX and LaTeX - Staying in Linux - by Ronen Abravanel TCPA 14/6/2004
Introduction to GnuCash by Baruch Even on 5/7/2004
Kernel 2.6 by Muli Ben Yehuda on 16/8/2004
We are always looking for interesting lecture ideas. Have a subject
you want to talk about? Or a subject you'd like to hear someone else
talk about? email us.
--
Orna Agmon
http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~ladypine/
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