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remote attestation is just fancy digital signatures with hardware protected secret keys. Are you freaking out about digital signatures used anywhere else?
by UltraSane 9mo ago
remote attestation is just fancy digital signatures with hardware protected secret keys. Are you freaking out about digital signatures used anywhere else?
- tliltocatl 9mo agoTrusted computing boil down to restricting what software I'm allowed to run on hardware I own and use. The technical means to do so are irrelevant.
- UltraSane 9mo ago"Trusted computing boil down to restricting what software I'm allowed to run on hardware I own and use." Remote attestation doesn't do this.
- tliltocatl 9mo agoIt absolutely does. Emphasis on use. The last thing I need is my bank requiring me to use a Poettering-certified distribution because anything else is "insecure".
- UltraSane 9mo agoYou are acting very entitled thinking you can dictate the conditions under which you can connect to other people's computers. This is a "it takes two to tango" situation. I'm sure YOU would refuse to connect to any bank that refuses to use TLS.
- tliltocatl 9mo agoNo man, there is no tango. "It takes two" doesn't apply when one part is a huge corporation.
- UltraSane 9mo agoBOTH parties have to agree on the conditions under which the computers will connect and EITHER can reject them.