On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > the processor serial number (PSN) wasn't shut down---every post-PIII CPU > has it. The access is often disabled by the BIOS, but it's there: > > http://pcworld.about.net/magazine/1903p198id38601.htm > > I think that TPC requires that PSN are enabled, but I can't think of why. probably to provide a unique serial number to use as part of the TPM attestation private key generation, to ensure uniqueness and to prevent a replay type attack -- Russ herrold -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
