[plug] v. good read re TCPA, Palladium, DRM etc

[Craig Ringer]

Anybody who's worried about Palladium, the new Intel & AMD chips with 
trusted computing capabilities, etc should probably read this. It draws 
a critical distinction between TCPA and the Palladium/DRM stuff. Seems 
to come down to TCPA considering the system owner trusted ("trustworthy 
system"), and palladium being a "trusted system" where the owner is not 
trusted, instad the system is trusted to lock the owner out.

I want a TCPA chip - nice, secure GPG and SSH keys, accellerated IPsec, etc.

Reccomended reading. Oh, and there's already a GPL linux driver for TCPA 
hardware :-)

http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/