On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:57:31AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 17:56 +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > Just read this: > > > > https://puri.sm/posts/pureboot-the-high-security-boot-process/ > > > > Makes me ask: where are these TPM based DRM's? Never seen one but I > > assume they exist. Anyway cool work otherwise. > > Actually, they don't, the article is just restating a common > misconception that the TPM is used to enforce DRM and then saying > they've found a non-evil use for it which, apparently, is using the TPM > for standard key storage and measurement. Apparently this means we're > also all working on non-evil uses ... *Might* be that Palladium that was canceled from Windows Vista might be the seed of this misconception. It seems to have spread about somewhat similar discussions when it still was coming. /Jarkko
