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Glossary: Change Records, Cryptography and PKI

TPM (Trusted Platform Module)

Also written: TPM, TPM 2.0

A security chip in one computer that generates and stores keys that never leave it and checks start-up integrity; BitLocker uses it to hold the disk key.

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HSM (hardware security module)measured boothardware root of trustBitLocker