What Is A TPM Chip?

A TPM Chip is probably the answer that votaries of removing the anonymity factor associated with the Internet users have been looking for. TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module and a TPM chip is a security feature that has been designed to ensure security is now a hardware feature now for computer users.

Basically, a network of computer organizations of all sizes formed the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, whose objective was to ensure network as well as general security for users of the Internet. One of the standards that this Alliance came up with was the TPM chip.

With the TPM chip, the algorithms for ensuring security in the network is no longer in the network, they are now at a physical location on the computer. A microchip has these algorithms now, and uses data encryption to ensure that data on the hard disk of the computer is secure from being tampered with, hacked, or used maliciously.

Logging into the computer basically requires a username and password. The TPM chip is the place where these details are stored on your computer. When someone wants to access your computer, the computer matches the username and password provided against the one in storage on the TPM chip. A match results in provision of data access, a mismatch results in access denial.