Submission + - Amit Singh Dispells Apple's TCPA/TPM DRM Myth
Trusted Anonymous Coward writes: "Despite continuous attention from both media and hackers nobody has so far been able to explain how Apple's TPM chips work in Mac OS X. In a fascinating article Trusted Computing for Mac OS X Amit Singh finally dispells the myth about Apple's TCPA/TPM based DRM. Singh has also released a GPL-ed open source TPM driver for Mac OS X, complete with an OS X port of the TrouSerS open source trusted computing software stack and provides a detailed guide for how you go about initializing your Intel Mac's TPM for your own use and how you perform your own cryptographic operations, data signing etc. For the executives among us there's a sweet and short executive summary also provided in the article."