Windows Vista: Palladium (NGSCB) delivery is still to be determined
Many of our readers may remember Microsoft’s hardware-based security plan called Palladium as the evil software that was going to invade ones privacy. It now seems that Pallidium is not dead and how it will be used is still to be determined. We now know that Microsoft’s Secure Startup is a hardware fix that works in conjunction with Windows Vista (aka: Longhorn). Windows Vista uses a chip called the Trusted Platform Module, or TPM, which offers protected storage of encryption keys, passwords and digital certificates. More info will come out closer to the launch of Vista!
Microsoft is talking up support for hardware-based security in Windows Vista, though only a sliver of the company’s original plan will make it into the operating system. Three years ago Microsoft unveiled Palladium, renamed Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) after the original name became tainted with controversy over privacy and fair-use issues and because another company claimed rights to the Palladium name. The technology was to be part of the next Windows release.
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