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From: Ken Goldman <kgold@linux.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documenting the proposal for TPM 2.0 security in the face of bus interposer attacks
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:33:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16c8baf7-e2a9-6e12-b736-a0e2384282ed@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1542648844.2910.9.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On 11/19/2018 12:34 PM, James Bottomley wrote:

> 2. At some point in time the attacker could reset the TPM, clearing
>     the PCRs and then send down their own measurements which would
>     effectively overwrite the boot time measurements the TPM has
>     already done.
> [snip]
> However, the second can only really be detected by relying
> on some sort of mechanism for protection which would change over TPM
> reset.

FYI: TPM 2.0 has a resetCount that can be used to detect, but not 
protect against, this attack.

> Every TPM comes shipped with a couple of X.509 certificates for the
> primary endorsement key.  This document assumes that the Elliptic
> Curve version of the certificate exists at 01C00002, but will work
> equally well with the RSA certificate (at 01C00001).

A nit.  The RSA cert is at 01c00002.  The ECC cert is at 01c0000a.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-10 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-19 17:34 Documenting the proposal for TPM 2.0 security in the face of bus interposer attacks James Bottomley
2018-11-19 20:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-19 20:20   ` James Bottomley
2018-11-19 21:19     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-19 21:34       ` James Bottomley
2018-11-19 21:44         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-19 22:36           ` James Bottomley
2018-11-19 23:08             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-20  0:54               ` James Bottomley
2018-11-20  3:05                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-20 17:17                   ` James Bottomley
2018-11-20 21:33                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-20 22:34                       ` James Bottomley
2018-11-20 23:39                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-21  2:24                           ` EXTERNAL: " Jeremy Boone
2018-11-21  5:16                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-20 23:52                       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-20 23:41                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-20 11:10 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-20 12:41   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-20 17:25     ` James Bottomley
2018-11-20 23:13       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-20 23:58         ` James Bottomley
2018-11-21  0:33           ` EXTERNAL: " Jeremy Boone
2018-11-21  6:37           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-21  5:42         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-21  7:18           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
     [not found]             ` <F10185EF-C618-45DC-B1F3-0053B8FE417F@gmail.com>
2018-11-21  9:07               ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-21  9:14             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-20 17:23   ` James Bottomley
2018-11-20 23:12     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-12-10 16:33 ` Ken Goldman [this message]
2018-12-10 17:30   ` James Bottomley
2018-12-11 21:47     ` Ken Goldman

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