Bug 431631
Summary: | RHEL5.2 Release Notes: TrouSerS and tpm-tools | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Don Domingo <ddomingo> |
Component: | redhat-release-notes | Assignee: | Ryan Lerch <rlerch> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Joshua Wulf <jwulf> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 5.2 | CC: | ddomingo, lcarlon, tburke |
Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Documentation |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: |
(all architectures)
TrouSerS and tpm-tools are included in this release to enable use of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware.TPM hardware features include (among others):
* Creation, storage, and use of RSA keys securely (without being exposed in memory)
* Verification of a platform's software state using cryptographic hashes
TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Stack (TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use of TPM hardware. tpm-tools is a suite of tools used to manage and utilize TPM hardware.
For more information about TrouSerS, refer to http://trousers.sourceforge.net/.
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Last Closed: | 2009-11-24 00:51:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 391221, 454962 |
Description
Don Domingo
2008-02-06 01:17:08 UTC
Hi, the RHEL5.2 release notes will be dropped to translation on April 15, 2008, at which point no further additions or revisions will be entertained. a mockup of the RHEL5.2 release notes can be viewed at the following link: http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/RHEL5u2relnotesmockup.html please use the aforementioned link to verify if your bugzilla is already in the release notes (if it needs to be). each item in the release notes contains a link to its original bug; as such, you can search through the release notes by bug number. Cheers, Don Tracking this bug for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Release Notes. This Release Note is currently located in the Technology Previews section. Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. |