The Trusted Platform Module is a hardware component built into PCs and laptops. It's designed to securely generate and store encryption keys, passwords, and digital certificates. The Trusted Platform ...

TPM processors come in two versions - an older and less secure 1.2 version and a more secure 2.0 version, which is a requirement for Windows 11. Since 2013, Intel and AMD added firmware TPM technology ...

Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 on Thursday, but it didn't answer a lot of low-level questions about the operating system or why it changed the minimum system requirements. Said requirements are trivial ...

The company says it’s setting a ‘hard floor’ of TPM 1.2 in order to install the new operating system, though TPM 2.0 is recommended. Microsoft has posted the specific requirements for the Trusted ...

The company has updated its documentation to say that its previous guidance on the minimum TPM security requirements was incorrect, and that TPM 1.2 is no longer considered to be sufficient. Microsoft ...

Microsoft’s stringent hardware requirements for Windows 11 have left many wondering if they can — or should — upgrade their current PCs to support the upcoming ...

For those who do not have this feature, you may be able to install a discrete TPM 2.0 processor on the motherboard. However, if your processor is old enough that it does not have one built-in fTPM, ...

I have an ASUS Maximus IX Hero motherboard working very well with an existing Win10 Enterprise install. That install is from an older machine I since sold, and migrated to a M.2 NVMe SSD. In other ...

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) provisioning service is a necessary one on Windows PC if you use BitLocker and other security features. It needs to work for them to be able to function better. Some ...

Microsoft on Friday downplayed the risk of using Trusted Platform Module chips after Black Hat researchers demonstrated a hack of them last week. Microsoft on Friday downplayed the risk of using ...

For most people, Windows 10 security updates are slated to stop on October 14, 2025, just over 10 months from today. That could end up being a serious security problem, given that Windows 10 is still ...

Four researchers from the National Security Research Institute of South Korea have figured out (PDF) that there are some exploitable flaws in the Trusted Platform Module 2.0, which has been around ...