DICE

Full Title

Device Identifier Composition Engine

Context

DICE is designed to the absolute minimum root of trust for programmable devices. Although it can do some TPM-stuff, it's mostly the root-of-trust on which to build things like TPMs (which are themselves pretty complicated.)

Many/most CPUs now have DICE support, although for more powerful CPUs it tends to be hidden away

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DICE: Device Identifier Composition Engine - Microsoft Research

There's a new sort of DICE called a DICE Protection Environment that's being driven by Google that's closer to a mini-TPM.  This will also be a TCG standard in a few weeks.