Very cool, that's you then that figured that out, presumably (along with your friend/colleague)? I was initially skeptical of your correction, because 99.9% of

Very cool, that's you then that figured that out, presumably (along with your friend/colleague)? I was initially skeptical of your correction, because 99.9% of programmers have no idea how this stuff works (and I clearly don't either, in detail). But clearly you've got bona fides here. So thank you for taking the time to explain this all to me. I've never been able to find out much published on this online by Intel.I assume you had to figure most of this out on your own through reverse engineering techniques? Do you have any other good links on how trust is bootstrapped in modern Intel CPUs, other than your Blackhat presentation (which is very helpful, already 1/2 through)? Have people/you figured out as much about trust is bootstrapped in AMD CPUs? I'm reading that the ME equivalent is an embedded ARM core using TrustZone? Is that right? Thank you, again. Edit: Knowing all that you know about what comes before TPM, and the associated vulnerabilities, do you still think hardware TPM modules are worth it for securing the OS boot process?