On Saturday 10 February 2007 22:28, Tim Thornton wrote: ... Regarding the other longer mail, many thanks for that - I'll read up on the references. I'd made some assumptions about the system, but hadn't realised that there were some keys I was unaware of the the TPM and the fact that there is a signing authority involved as well (I know of someone who may be interested in this you see). Given that I can see how difficult it would be to fake the necessary environment. (People would just resort to re-encoding after it hits the analogue domain then and ignore the whole thing)
> Your machine will do what you tell it to. It's just that there are > secrets you can't access. Regarding the point above, that's the issue here. Whilst you're happy with owning a computer that will keep secrets from you, I'm not. That's a minor detail though - kinda you say potato I saw potato - we're unlikely to agree. (We both agree they keep their secrets from the user, from your perspective I still retain control, from mine I don't.) After all, I'm happy with the idea that I can use it for all the obvious examples of it protecting my secrets though. A company storing its accounts information including my credit card details on a TCPA based system would be preferable to one that didn't. (After all companies are subject to burglaries, thefts, and losses of various kinds) Thanks for the references and explanation - I'll read up on the references, you never know when the positive uses of the technology will be handy. Regards, Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
