The Trusted Computing Group is an industry consortium that has developed a hardware chip called the trusted platform module (TPM). This video discusses the TPM, an attack, and some applications.
The Trusted Platform Module (Link)
The Trusted Platform Module
Papers about the TPM
- L. Chen and M. D. Ryan. Offline dictionary attack on TCG TPM weak authorisation data, and solution. In D. Grawrock, H. Reimer, A. Sadeghi, C. Vishik, editors, Future of Trust in Computing, Vieweg & Teubner, 2008.
- L. Chen and M. D. Ryan. Attack, solution and verification for shared authorisation data in TCG TPM. Draft paper (currently under review).