Uh, you *really* have no idea how much the black hat community is
looking forward to TCPA. For example, Office is going to have core
components running inside a protected environment totally immune to
antivirus. Since these components are going to be managing
cryptographic operations, the "well defined API" exposed from within the
sandbox will have arbitrary content going in, and opaque content coming
out. Malware goes in (there's not a executable environment created that
can't be exploited), sets up shop, has no need to be stealthy due to the
complete blockage of AV monitors and cleaners, and does what it wants to
the plaintext and ciphertext (alters content, changes keys) before
emitting it back out the opaque outbound interface.
So, no FUD, you lose :)
--Dan
Erwann ABALEA wrote:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote:
Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly
the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of
your computer which you may not have full control over.
Please stop relaying FUD. You have full control over your PC, even if this
one is equiped with a TCPA chip. See the TCPA chip as a hardware security
module integrated into your PC. An API exists to use it, and one if the
functions of this API is 'take ownership', which has the effect of
erasing it and regenerating new internal keys.
