- is designed to provide hardware-based, security-related functions
- a TPM chip is a secure crypto-processor that is designed to carry out cryptographic operations. The chip includes multiple physical security mechanisms to make it tamper-resistant, and malicious software is unable to tamper with the security functions of the TPM
- some of the advantages of using TPM technology are:
- generate, store, and limit the use of cryptographic keys
- use it for device authentication by using the TPM’s unique RSA key, which is burned into the chip
- help ensure platform integrity by taking and storing security measurements of the boot process
- usually found on motherboard or CPU