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floatboth on Nov 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our ...

Discrete TPMs have been going out of fashion, fTPM (firmware tpm, i.e. soft TPM located in ME/PSP) has been standard for a few years now.

baby on Nov 24, 2020 [–]

Yeah I've read the fTPM paper that made use of SGX, but it sounded like it had some limitation (needed fuses to prevent rollbacks, etc.)

From the article it also looks like Pluton will implement the TPM API, but I guess that's just to remain compatible.

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