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Linus has merged the driver, and it is part of 2.6.12-rc2 and later. | Linus has merged the driver, and it is part of 2.6.12-rc2 and later. | ||
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Revision as of 17:47, 12 July 2005
This is a Linux kernel device driver to enable the TPM chip as described by Trusted Computing Group specifications. The TPM chip will enable you to use hardware to securely store and protect your keys and personal data. The Trusted Comuting Group specifications also describes a library for application access to the TPM funcitonality. A Linux implementation of this Trusted Software Stack (TSS) library is TrouSerS.
Project Homepage / Availability
- Homepage (no files): http://tpmdd.sourceforge.net/
- a patch against kernel 2.6.10 can be found here: http://www.hotheads.de/linux/kernel/2.6.10/tpmdd-for-2.6.10-2005119.patch
(The above link is out of date)
- The driver is already included in the latest Andrew Morton Patchset for the vanilla kernel (2.6.11-rc2-mm1) http://www.kernel.org.
You find the driver under char - tpm.
Status
Linus has merged the driver, and it is part of 2.6.12-rc2 and later.
Packages
- Gentoo ebuild of TrouSerS: http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-crypt;name=trousers
Related Links
- Trusted Computing Group
- TrouSerS project (Trusted Software Stack library)
