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Date:   Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:40:27 +0000
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Cc:     "Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan" 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] keys: Introduce tsm keys
From:   "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>
To:     "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, <dhowells@redhat.com>
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On Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 7:30 PM UTC, Dan Williams wrote:
> One of the common operations of a TSM (Trusted Security Module) is to
> provide a way for a TVM (confidential computing guest execution
> environment) to take a measurement of its run state and use that with a
> key-exchange protocol to establish a shared secret with a third-party /
> remote attestation agent. The concept is common across TSMs, but the

This is obfuscated "white paper" alike language.

I have no idea what TSM's and TVM's are and I do not want to know. Even
confidential computing is useless buzzword in the context of providing
a key type for attestation.

I would replace "tsm" with "attestation".

BR, Jarkko