> If you want to trust your computer to do what you think it does, you don't want trusted computing ... I suppose this depends on precisely what's meant by the

> If you want to trust your computer to do what you think it does, you don't want trusted computing ... I suppose this depends on precisely what's meant by the term. Trusted computing based on a root of trust you control is incredibly useful by providing guarantees to you about remote systems you own and operate. This can be realized at present using Secure Boot and a TPM, but more hardware support (ex VM screening or SGX based on your own keys) would be nice. You seem to be using trusted computing to refer only to hardware that works against the owner. Instead, I've always thought of it as referring to a device that is capable of providing various guarantees about the code it executes - it just happens that current implementations are primarily designed to provide those guarantees to third parties instead of the owner.