On Thursday 20 August 2009 09:49:06 Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/8/20 Michael Gorven <mich...@gorven.za.net>: > > On Wednesday 19 August 2009 21:21:28 Michal Suchanek wrote: > >> Tell me one technical benefit of TPM over coreboot. > > > > Coreboot doesn't provide protected storage of secrets (e.g. harddrive > > decryption keys). > > TPM does not either at the time the BIOS is loaded. Remember, it's the > CPU what's running the BIOS, not the TPM chip. > > Only after BIOS enables TPM or coreboot enables any crypto device you > choose you get any secrets or keys.
So? It's still protected storage. You can read a BIOS chip, but you can't just read the contents of a TPM chip. Michael -- http://michael.gorven.za.net PGP Key ID 1E016BE8 S/MIME Key ID AAF09E0E
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