Submission + - New Trusted HW standard for Windows 8 to support Chinese crypto (trustedcomputinggroup.org)
An anonymous reader writes: A new version of the Trusted Platform Module, called TPM2 or TPM 2.0 by Microsoft, has apparently been designed specifically for the release of Windows 8 this week. The details of this new standard have been secret. But a major update to the original TPM standard, which came out 10 years ago, seems to have been very quietly released on the Trusted Computing web site earlier this month. Following in the footsteps of the original, this version is quite a challenging read (security through incomprehensibility?) But this new version also seems to support some controversial crypto algorithms that were made public by the “State Encryption Management Bureau” of China for the first time about 2 years ago. This is roughly the time that Microsoft seems to have begun working in earnest on TPM2, Windows 8, and probably even Surface. But that’s probably just a coincidence. This crypto is controversial because of serious EU concerns with domestic restrictions on the implementation, use, and importation of cryptography in China.
