[Trustedjava-support] Vista support remarks

[Ronald T. <ron...@ia...>]

Dear trustedJava users,

Here are a few remarks on Windows Vista support.

* Only Vista 32-bit is supported for now. This is a restriction of the 
setup/install scripts and the system service loader module.

* The setup.exe provides only runtime support for TCS. For developers it 
is recommended to (also) use the complete .tar.bz2 version. Among others 
it provides more documentation.

* The native library accessing the TBS (Trusted Bases Services) requires 
MS Visual C+ 2005 SP1 runtime libraries. On some machines, you need to 
install
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en
before using jTSS. This will be included in the next release.

Without these libraries, you might experience an error like

ERROR] TcTddlVista::<clinit> (39):    Unable to load native Vista DLL 
(neither from library path nor from jar file).

* If you receive a TPM-Exception like:

iaik.tc.tss.api.exceptions.tcs.TcTpmException:
TSS Error:
error layer:                0x00 (TPM)
error code (without layer): 0x00
error code (full):          0xac040000
error message: Success.

with an error code where the first 2 bytes are not 0x0000, this is not a 
TPM issue but a TBS error code. Perhaps the TPM is not enabled or some 
commands might be blocked.

* You will need to unblock some commands of the TPM for some TPM 
applications (including jTSS test cases). To learn hopw to do this (and 
about Vista TPM support in general), have a look at
http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/2257/04/1.html

Regards,
Ronald

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Dipl.-Ing. Ronald Tögl          phone +43 316/873-5502
Trusted Computing Labs          fax   +43 316/873-5520
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