Hi Maxim. This area is a bit murky since there is a lot of overlap between
the notions of secure boot, trusted boot, and measured boot.
If it had to venture an answer, I'd say the benefit of TXT is that it
provides finer-grained measurements and visibility into the secure boot
process. I don't kno
Hi Steve, a technical (and perhaps stupid) question:
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Steve Weis wrote:
> The host H will have a trusted platform module (TPM). When H boots up, it
> will measure all software state into platform control registers (PCRs) in
> the TPM. See Intel Trusted Execution Te
Hi Eleanor. tl;dr: Today we bootstrap from the TPM.
"To have a secure channel between two processes/compartments (in this case,
the CPU of the hosted machine and the remote,
non-service-provider-controlled system), they must share a secret."
This is a good question since it's not necessarily clea
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On 2013.06.20 22.55, Steve Weis wrote:
> Hi Eleanor. I am a co-founder of PrivateCore and happy to answer
> questions. I'll keep it non-commercial and focus on the technical
> answers for this mailing list:
Thanks for responding!
> "[It isn't] cl
Hi Eleanor. I am a co-founder of PrivateCore and happy to answer questions.
I'll keep it non-commercial and focus on the technical answers for this
mailing list:
"[We] were talking about secure hosting"
PrivateCore's technology is currently packaged as a hypervisor, so is
targeted at environments
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So, a bunch of us were talking about secure hosting in Tunis. At one
point in a side conversation, PrivateCore came up as a tool that might
be interesting when you're looking at aggressive malware. It's
designed to allow you to perform certain kind
