Fri, Jul 28 2006 13:36 Don

U.S. Army requires trusted computing


The U.S. Army will open its second purchase period this year for small computers, requiring that all systems have specialized hardware designed to add strong data security to the system.

Known as the Trusted Computing Platform, the hardware specification uses encryption and specialized memory to secure a computer's data, allowing only the application that created a file to access that data and allowing hard drive data to be locked to a specific computer, for example.

Read story at securityfocus.com
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