Trusted Computing Group

The Trusted Computing Group is a group formed in 2003 as the successor to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance which was previously formed in 1999 to implement Trusted Computing concepts across personal computers. Members include Intel, AMD, IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco.

Trusted Computing Group
Company typeConsortium
Founded2003
FounderAMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft
Headquarters,
United States
Websitetrustedcomputinggroup.org

The core idea of trusted computing is to give hardware manufacturers control over what software does and does not run on a system by refusing to run unsigned software.

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