What is the current feeling on installing an optional hardware TPM module on a motherboard that has a header for it? My most recent Asus motherboard has a header for a $20 TPM module. From what I understand this module has a hardware random number generator that can spit out 10's of kbits/sec of entropy and has several different modes for storing user-loadable crypto keys. On the surface, both of these sound like useful things. Is there a downside? Can a flawed RNG pollute the entropy pool in a way that lowers the security?
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