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Version 1.0 (release candidate 4) of TrustedGRUB has been released and can be downloaded. Additionally, a sourceforge-project page including a mailing list was setup at http://sourceforge.net/projects/trustedgrub.
New features include an improved measurement speed due to a software SHA-1 implementation, support of more TPMs, and an update to GRUB release 0.9.7.

TrustedGRUB is an extension of the original GNU GRUB bootloader. It has been modified to detect and support the new Trusted Computing functionalities provided by a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) as specified by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). ... read more

The first two of five milestones, “Turaya.Crypt” and “Turaya.VPN”, which are based on the PERSEUS security framework, have been published by the EMSCB consortium and can be downloaded at http://www.emscb.org.

The consortium European Multilaterally Secure Computing Base (EMSCB) provides the source code at the download page. The technology is communicated under the name “Turaya”. A CD-image with demonstrators of the device encryption “Turaya.Crypt” and the safe VPN application “Turaya.VPN” can be downloaded.