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the_john19
4 years agoOccasional Contributor
TPM For Windows Hello After Restart
With Windows 11 there will be even more Windows machines with TPM on by default. Thanks to the TPM other password managers allow you to use Windows Hello even after restarting the app or the machine ...
Former Member
4 years agoIt seems TPM is just a label and a generic term for a large variety of hardware security modules of different manufacturing dates with different specifications, most being obsolete and not considered secure enough for anything else than storing Bitlocker drive encryption keys.
I assume this is one cause for Microsoft requiring only the most recent CPUs for Windows 11, thus the most recent TPMs only. This enables a unified security function set over all Windows 11 machines, like securely storing more than just Bitlocker keys.
Given the fact that TPMs are being deployed for more than 10 years, this is quite disappointing. The main issue causing this is probably that it is resisted by the people. TPMs are seen as privacy and control being taken away from the computer owner by the media industry (DRM) instead of the TPM being a safe vault for items they want to be stored securely and not being taken away by some attacker.
My personal view of a TPM in the past was also that it is only a control device for the industry and against my free computer use - this proved wrong and changed only a few years ago after I looked deeper what functionality is actually provided by a TPM.