Trusted Computing (TC), also often referred to as Confidential Computing, is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group. The term is taken from the field of trusted systems and has a specialized meaning. The core idea of trusted computing is to give hardware manufacturers control over what software does and does not run on a system by refusing to run unsigned software. With Trusted Computing, the computer will consistently behave in expected ways, and those behaviors will be enforced by computer hardware and software. Enforcing this behavior is achieved by loading the hardware with a unique encryption key that is inaccessible to the rest of the system and the owner. TC is controversial as the hardware is not only secured for its owner, but also secured against its owner. Such controversy has led opponents of trusted computing, such as free software activist Richard Stallman, to refer to it instead as treacherous computing, even to the point where some scholarly articles have begun to place scare quotes around "trusted computing". Trusted Computing proponents such
Trusted Computing (TC), también conocido como Confidential Computing, es una tecnología desarrollada y promovida por el Trusted Computing Group. El término se toma del campo de los sistemas de confianza y tiene un significado especializado. La idea central de Trusted Computing es dar a los fabricantes de hardware el control sobre lo que el software hace y no se ejecuta en un sistema al negarse a ejecutar software sin firma. Con Trusted Computing, el ordenador se comportará de manera consistente de la manera esperada, y esos comportamientos serán ejecutados por hardware y software de computadora. La aplicación de este comportamiento se logra cargando el hardware con una clave de cifrado única que es inaccesible al resto del sistema y al propietario. TC es controvertido ya que el hardware no solo está asegurado para su propietario, sino también asegurado contra su propietario. Tal controversia ha llevado a los opositores de la computación de confianza, como el activista de software libre Richard Stallman, a referirse a él como traidor en lugar de computación, incluso en el punto en que algunos artículos de computación