[ltp] tpm chip

Alejandro Bonilla linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:59:47 -0600


Extra Extra, read all about it!!! http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/

Tino Keitel wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 17:46:11 +0100, Michael Gaber wrote:
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>>it would be nice to use this chip for encrypting the whole hard-drive on
>>the fly, cause it would really decrease cpu-time needed for a crypto-fs
>>and also should be faster.
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>I read somewhere that the hardware is so cheap and slow that using it
>to accelerate e.g. an encrypted filesystem won't work.
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>Regards,
>Tino
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