Fotix Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Microsoft Corp. and some of its key partners on Tuesday announced the formation of a new group that will develop and implement a set of specifications for trusted computing platforms. Known as the Trusted Computing Group, the new alliance is purported to be the successor to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, of which Microsoft and some other TCG founders are members. In fact, the TCG plans to adopt the TCPA's current specifications and has invited all 200 of that group's members to join the TCG. Current members of the TCG include IBM, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and VeriSign Inc., among others. The TCPA was working to develop standards to help make hardware computing platforms more secure and trustworthy. The most well-known offspring of this effort is Microsoft's Next Generation Secure Computing base, formerly code named Palladium. The new group has essentially brought with it all of the work done by the TCPA on hardware specifications. But the TCG has designs on greatly expanding the scope of what the former group worked on, most notably developing specifications for PDAs, digital phones and servers. The TCG is also at work on a software specification. <<snipped>> Full Story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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