In a nutshell, Palladium combines hardware and software for better security. Palladium is actually a code name for Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB). The idea is a secure run-time environment for Windows allows software applications and services to protect
the end user from privacy invasion, outside hacking, and spam.
Palladium requires special hardware security chips and microprocessors. While Palladium-based PCs will still operate normally,
with legacy operating systems new Palladium applications and services will offer
the new security features.
If you're familiar with the .NET model, Palladium will institute a similar
model for PC software, where a trusted mode is used for Palladium
applications and services, while "un-trusted" mode is used for legacy code.
Microsoft designed Palladium with the following goals:
Palladium will identify who you are dealing with online, and tell you what they're
doing. It can limit what arrives, and control what runs on your machine. Any
information that comes in from the Internet will be verified before you access
it, thus preventing damage.
Encryption protects information using encryption so that
hackers go elsewhere. The system can maintain document integrity
so that documents can't be altered without your knowledge.
Palladium controls information that you send out from your computer. Using Digital
Rights Management (DRM) technology, Palladium can securely
distribute music, movies over the
Internet. The recording industry could use this technology to let their
customers exercise their fair use rights to copy audio CDs and movies, for
example.
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