On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Orna Agmon wrote: > Next Monday (28/6/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once > again meet to hear ronen Abravanel talk about:
You probably mean - Next Monday (5/7/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Orr Dunkelman talk about: > > > The Trusted Computing Initiative - part II > A cont. lecture for the lecture given on 10/5 on the same topic > > Abstract > > Several years ago, major hardware and software companies have formed the > Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA). The group was aimed at > producing a more secure and trustworthy computing: > > * A computer can check its own security and trust level (viruses and > worms could be easily found and identified) > * A computer could prove its security level to other computers > * A computer could prove it is not ripping the CD to the CD > * and many more > > As trusted computing in a sufficient level to satisfy the above > conditions, could only be achieved with dedicated hardware on each and > every computer, the basic idea is to have a Trust Platform Module (TPM) on > any digital machine. Moreover, the TPMs must be automatically activated, > and without a way for the user to disable them. This, however, raises > suspicion, as the TCPA companies (now known as TCG), can implement > whatever they like in the TPM. > > The lecture will cover the need for TPMs and the general mechanism of > tracking and proving trust. We intend to discuss some of its technical > problems, and if time permits the philosophical problems which arise. > > Slides are available from the same place as in the previous lecture: > http://www.haifux.org/lectures/99/ > > We meet in the Technion, Taub 3. See http://www.haifux.org.org/where/html > for arrival details. > > Attendance is free, and you are all invited! > > Future lectures include: > > Introduction to GnuCash by Baruch Even on 19/7/2004 > IP injected, inspected, detected, infected - by guy keren on 2/8/2004 > Planning Winter 2004/5 Welcome to Linux - by everyone who wants to > contribute - 9/8/2004 > Latest kernel developments by Muli Ben Yehuda and Orna Agmon + 5-th haifux > birthday party on 16/8/2004 > Web Hacking by Nadav Har'EL on 30/8/2004 > > We are always looking for interesting lecture ideas. Have a subject > you want to talk about? Or a subject you'd like to hear someone else > talk about? email us. > > > Orna. > -- > Orna Agmon http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~ladypine/ > ICQ: 348759096 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
