Trustworthy Computing

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Blockchains: Evidence of Mediated Computation

In writing of the report of the Kantara BSC group (Blockchain and Smart Contracts) – a group that has been meeting bi-weekly for the past 7 months – we have come across numerous use-cases proposed by members who are looking closely at blockchain technology (or more generally from distributed ledger technology). To enable classification of these Read More

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Atmel to support EPID from Intel

One important news item this week from the IoT space is the support by Atmel of Intel’s EPID technology. Enhanced Privacy ID (EPID) grew from the work of Ernie Brickell and Jiangtao Li based on previous work on Direct Anonymous Attestations (DAA).  DAA is very relevant because it is built-in into the TPM1.2 chip (of which there are several hundred million Read More

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Technical Trust

  So the topic of “trust” always generates a million emails on various lists.  Rather than rolling-up my own definition, I thought I’d borrow a good definition from the Trusted Computing Group community (courtesy of Graeme Proudler of HP Labs, UK). It is safe to trust something when: It can be unambiguously identified. It operates Read More