About the Authors

Will Arthur is a senior staff firmware engineer in the Datacenter Engineering Group for Intel Corporation. He leads the development of authenticated code modules (ACMs) for the server version of Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). As an active participant in the Trusted Computing Group’s TPM and TSS working groups, he wrote the TCG TPM 2.0 System API and TPM 2.0 TAB and Resource Manager specifications, developed the TCG versions of the code that implements those specifications, and reviewed and edited the TPM 2.0 specification for readability and accuracy. Will has over 30 years of experience in low-level embedded firmware and software, the last 19 of those years with Intel. Will earned a BSCS in computer science from Arizona State University.

David Challener has been working on Trusted Computing since it started over a dozen years ago. He is currently co-chair of the TPM Working Group, and in the past has been chair of the TSS workgroup and on the TCG technical committee and Board of Directors. He has contributed to a number of other TCG specifications as well. He has a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Illinois and currently works at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.