Trusted Computing Platforms: TCPA Technology in Context - Softcover

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About the Editor

DR. SIANI PEARSON is a Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard's Trusted e-Services Lab and has been a key member of the HP Labs team involved in founding and developing the Trusted Computer Platform Alliance (TCPA). She holds a Ph.D. in automated theorem proving at Edinburgh University and earned a fellowship at Cambridge University working in the same field. For the past four years, her research has focused on computer security, trust, and privacy.

With contributions from:

• Boris Balacheff
• Liqun Chen
• Dr. Siani Pearson
• David Plaquin
• Graeme Proudler

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TCPA: Building computing platforms upon a solid foundation of trust.

As businesses stake their very existence on the Internet, PCs, PDAs, and other key computing platforms, the trustworthiness of these platforms has become a vital concern. In response, the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) has delivered a complete specification for building trusted computing platforms atop trusted hardware. In Trusted Computing Platforms, leaders of the initiative illuminate TCPA for every systems developer and decision-maker. They place TCPA in context, outlining its goals, techniques, and powerful implications for the future.

• What trusted computing platforms are, how they work, and what problems they will solve
• Transforming standard platforms into trusted platforms cost-effectively
• Scenarios for managers: TCPA applications in the security-focused business
• Protected storage: how TCPA can ensure the confidentiality of stored data
• Software integrity: ensuring that a system's software environment hasn't been tampered with
• Trust mechanisms in a trusted platform: functional descriptions, advantages, and overhead
• Trusted platforms in practice: TCPA for developers and technical professionals
• How trusted platforms can be used to protect user privacy
• The TCPA initiative: its history, status, and next steps forward

Backed by an extraordinary range of industry leaders, TCPA offers the first complete, cost-effective, and globally applicable solution for trusted computing. Whether you develop new systems or apply them in business or government, you need to understand this technology―and with this book, you will.