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tpm security console

post #1 of 4
3/1/07 at 10:33am
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what exactly is it? I tried googling it, but I mostly just get lists of products that have it.

I understand that its for security, to protect some kind of information... but what information, what exactly is it used for, and do I need it?

I just formated my OS partition, and now am reinstalling all the drivers. I remember that I had the TPM driver installed last time, but I could never figure out what to do with it, and most of the options seemed disabled in it's config. BTW, I have XP home on an Asus z96j.
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post #2 of 4
3/1/07 at 2:25pm
I know TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module, but I don't really know what it does any more than you do. Sorry!
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post #3 of 4
3/1/07 at 4:45pm
What it does is to allow people to run code on your computer that no other program, and thus *you*, can't examine. It's a cryptography chip that is supposed to be tamper-proof.

It will be used for future DRM (digital restrictions management) schemes. For more information, read http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html. To see why this is a bad idea, read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html.

In short: it's not there to protect your computer from anyone else; it's there to protect your computer from *you*.
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post #4 of 4
3/3/07 at 7:59am
First off all, go to BIOS and activate the TPM-chip from there.

Now you can configure the TPM utility in Windows to (for example) format a hidden partition in the HDD, which you can activate and make visible by a password. Quite usefull I think, at least if you have data on your notebook, which you don't want to get into wrong hands (during for example service).
The partition is hidden quite good. I havn't so far found a program, that can make it visible, unless activated.

Hope this helps you to decide if you need it or not... I have it configured.
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