What is the Microsoft Pluton security processor?
Pluton has been specifically designed to address this weakness by essentially getting rid of this communication channel and instead hosting the sensitive information inside the chip. Microsoft says this makes it impossible to take information like encryption keys from the hardware, no matter what kind of attack is launched on the infrastructure. Thanks to a collaboration between Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, work on this new chip was first announced on 17 November 2020, and it builds on a previous version that powered the Xbox One games console. How does Microsoft Pluton work? It's ...