"Ian Farquhar (ifarquha)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >For example: the Gigabyte GA-965QM-DS2 (rev 2.0) which "features security >enhancement by TPM". More common (ASUS, Foxconn) was the "TPM Connector", >which seemed to be a hedged bet, by replacing the cost of the TPM chip with >the cost of a socket.
Those are actually misleading, since there's no certainty that you'll be able to find anything that'll actually plug into them. That is, not only are the TPM whatever-they-are-that-goes-there's almost impossible to find, but if you do find one there's no guarantee that it'll actually work when plugged into the header. In practice this is just a way of adding the "TPM" keyword to your marketing without having to actually do anything except include a dummy header on the MB. (For people who don't work with the innards of PCs much, most motherboards have assorted unused headers, sites for non-installed ICs, and so on, as a standard part of the MB. The TPM header is just another one). Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]