From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About PureBoot and TPM based DRM's
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:25:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190227172535.GA3848@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1551286651.3105.11.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
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
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-27 15:56 About PureBoot and TPM based DRM's Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-02-27 16:57 ` James Bottomley
2019-02-27 17:25 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
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