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At the moment Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group are using at least hundreds millions of Euros stake to make the biggest change of the information landscape since decades. Besides positive features like a more secure hardware storage for cryptographic keys an analysis of the proposed standards leads to a lot of problematic properties. One of main problems is that the administrator will not have the full control on their own computers anymore. Additional the market domination of Microsoft, obscurities regarding the needed trust infrastructure and a heap of patents have lead to critical evaluations of European Institutions and governments. In this talk we concentrate on a technical analysis of the proposed architectures and their implications to Open Source Operation Systems. Finally we give an overview and outlook on alternative models which allows the user to have similar security features and still keep the full control over the personal devices. |
 Ruediger Weis obtained a diploma in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Mannheim. At the moment he works as researcher in the group of Andy Tanenbaum at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and as chief cryptographer of cryptolabs Amsterdam. His resarch mainly covers cryptography, computer security, operation systems and wireless networks. Ruediger is also a long-time member of the Chaos Computer Club. |
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