> From: Francis Liu [mailto:fish...@gmail.com] > > That's the most useful explanation of "why one might choose to have TPM" > I've ever read.
Yeah, if you google for TPM, most of what you find is anti-DRM folks who want to pirate music and stuff like that. Which the TPM can do. (Enable more sophisticated DRM and significantly obstruct piracy.) But that's not all it can do. Obviously. Also, if you're doing cryptography (we all are) your computer does a lot of work to collect random data from things like your mouse, keyboard, ethernet, and hard drive timing, encrypt and/or hash it, stretch it, continuously rescramble it. But with your TPM enabled, the TPM is itself a cryptographic random provider. So the OS will source random data from it as well as all that other stuff, significantly improving both the speed and cryptographic strength of your crypto. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
