AARG!Anonymous wrote: > Adam Back writes: > > >>- Palladium is a proposed OS feature-set based on the TCPA hardware >>(Microsoft) > > > Actually there seem to be some hardware differences between TCPA and > Palladium. TCPA relies on a TPM, while Palladium uses some kind of > new CPU mode. Palladium also includes some secure memory, a concept > which does not exist in TCPA.
This is correct. Palladium has "ring -1", and memory that is only accessible to ring -1 (or I/O initiated by ring -1). Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ Available for contract work. "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]