When All Platforms Are Trusted Platforms

This section aims to emphasize how Trusted Platform technology is appropriate for all computing platforms. After a brief discussion of laptops, PDAs, and servers, it introduces how an IT infrastructure where all platforms are Trusted Platforms would deliver the full vision of trusted platform technology.

It is very likely that different types of Trusted Platform—and not just Trusted PCs—would form part of a future global computing infrastructure.

Different Types of Trusted Platforms

As discussed already, the generic TCPA specification applies to a wide range of computing platforms including servers, appliances, and cell phones. In particular, the identity creation and usage, reporting mechanisms, etc., ...

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