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TPM - The Perplexing Module?

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OK so with the Win 11 news and TPM being required then everyone asking how to tell if their device is capable, I'm left on the side of never getting too far into the circuit level components and architecture. I've seen many say this is a choice that makes them upset, but IDK why. And when I look TPM up, it seems to be an encryption for the computers data to protect from hacking/ransomware. Seems to be idk what it's called, maybe bios level, before you get logged in and working after you log in as well. Sounds like a good thing to me anyways, so for everyone who knows way more about this thing than I do, what's the pros and cons of TPM? Is there something besides hardware level encryption that I'm not grasping?

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It's a tiny little chip, preinstalled on some motherboards and not on others, that basically stores encrypted keys to protect data. There are 2 big revisions: TPM 1.2, and TPM 2.0, which Windows 11 requires. This is only a problem if you have an older system that doesn't support a TPM 2.0 chip.

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Trusted Platform Module. I can only say what I used it with which was encrypting hard drives (bitlocker). TPM seemed like it would make sure nothing changed on the hardware and if it changed it would not let you boot up to the Operating System unless you changed back or input a code. Example, on an old dell laptop I got it to request a code by changing the boot options in the UEFI but if I changed them back it no longer requested the code. I'm sure there are other case scenarios but I'm sure most of them have to do with verifying that the system decrypting the encrypted data is the only one that should be able to.

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10 minutes ago, EricX2 said:

Trusted Platform Module. I can only say what I used it with which was encrypting hard drives (bitlocker). TPM seemed like it would make sure nothing changed on the hardware and if it changed it would not let you boot up to the Operating System unless you changed back or input a code. Example, on an old dell laptop I got it to request a code by changing the boot options in the UEFI but if I changed them back it no longer requested the code. I'm sure there are other case scenarios but I'm sure most of them have to do with verifying that the system decrypting the encrypted data is the only one that should be able to.

so wait is this the chip that Apple used to restrict third party repairs that was in the news for a while or is that something else?

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50 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

so wait is this the chip that Apple used to restrict third party repairs that was in the news for a while or is that something else?

That's the T2 chip and is apple specific. TPM is more generic

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Is there a general cut off date for is a mobo is too old to have one of these?

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