floofloof to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up1689arrow-down18
arrow-up1681arrow-down1external-linkFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.comfloofloof to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square159fedilink
minus-squareSolar Bear@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThis is already the case with your motherboard firmware, which fTPM is a part of. You are correct in that you have no real way to handle malware in it except throw it away. This doesn’t change in any way if you get rid of TPM.
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt decreases the attack surface.
This is already the case with your motherboard firmware, which fTPM is a part of. You are correct in that you have no real way to handle malware in it except throw it away. This doesn’t change in any way if you get rid of TPM.
It decreases the attack surface.