What Are TCPA and Palladium and How Will They Affect Future Systems?

The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, or TCPA, is an initiative led by Intel that provides for a monitoring component--a "smart chip"-- to be mounted in the motherboards of PCs. Palladium, the Microsoft equivalent, builds on TCPA hardware and will be installed on future versions of Windows.

To get the facts on TCPA and Palladium, go to the FAQs site at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html