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* Clear, practical tutorial style text with real-world applications
* First book on TPM for embedded designers
* Provides a sound foundation on the TPM, helping designers take advantage of hardware security based on sound TCG standards
* Covers all the TPM basics, discussing in detail the TPM Key Hierarchy and the Trusted Platform
Module specification
* Presents a methodology to enable designers and
developers to successfully integrate the TPM into an embedded design and verify the TPM's operation on a specific platform
* Includes an accompanying CD-ROM that contains the full source code, which can be customized and used in embedded designs-an extremely useful tool and timesaver for embedded developers!
· This sound foundation on the TPM provides clear, practical tutorials with detailed real-world application examples
· The author is reknowned for training embedded systems developers to successfully implement the TPM worldwide
· CD-ROM includes source code which can be customized for different embedded applications
Direct download links available for Free Trusted Platform Module Basics: Using TPM in Embedded Systems (Embedded Technology) [Paperback]
- Series: Embedded Technology
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Newnes (August 8, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0750679603
- ISBN-13: 978-0750679602
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.4 x 9.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Free Trusted Platform Module Basics: Using TPM in Embedded Systems
Wow, where to start? I guess with the introduction that contains errors of fact - RSA does not stand for random scheduling algorithm. This gets the book of to a really bad start and it just lurches along from there. This book is just full of details without any relevant context. The first chapter tells what calls to use to initialize the TPM for memory present and memory absent implementations, but doesn't define the difference between memory present and memory absent and why you would choose one over the other. Let alone not providing a context chapter and jumping right into providing call details. The writing style is the most confusing thing that I have ever run across, with irrelevant clauses included that just confuse the situation. I had to read it with a pen and cross out all of the irrelevant parts and then re-read the paragraph in order to understand it. It's a stream of conciousness technical book. As hard as the TCG specifications are to understand, this book doesn't make them any easier. I was hoping for a guided trip through the architecture to prepare me for tackling the specifications. I think the specifications are easier to read directly than this book.
I've been in the computer industry 20 years and never have I encountered such a poorly written work.
By Gunner D. Danneels
Wow. As an engineer, I've read some seriously bad writing, but rarely does a technical book plead so convincingly for review by a competent editor. The book is so littered with "with regards to," "relative to," "concerning," and "it is safe to say that," I'd swear it would shrink by half if only the author had the vaguest familiarity with the work of Professors Strunk and White. The passive voice has never found a more welcoming home. And you know you're in for a rough ride when you find the publisher's name misspelled on the very first page (it's "Newnes," not "Newness").
On top of that, the author insists on promoting his employer's products, and spends half a chapter ranting about "hackers" who levied "malicious attacks" on their Xboxes by installing Linux on them. Simply unprofessional.
As for content, the book promises early on to guide embedded systems developers in implementing TPM in their designs, but ends up devoting far more space to niggling protocol details than to suggestions on their use.
There's some good information buried somewhere in this book, but unless you have a babelfish handy, I'd recommend you hold your nose and read the freely-available TPM specifications rather than spending money on this volume.
By Ed S.