[PATCH v3 0/6] add integrity and security to TPM2 transactions

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 08:57:13AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> I think the way I'm going to fix the trusted key policy problem is to
> move it back into the kernel for the simple PCR lock policy (which will
> make changing from 1.2 to 2.0 seamless because the external Key API
> will then become the same) so the kernel gets the missing TPM nonce and
> can then do TPM2_PolicyAuthValue.

Sounds reasonable.

> User generated policy sessions for trusted keys are very flexible but
> also a hugely bad idea for consumers because it's so different from the
> way 1.2 works and it means now the user has to exercise a TPM API to
> produce the policy sessions.
> 
> Longer term, I think having a particular trusted key represent a policy
> session which can then be attached to a different trusted key
> representing the blob is the best idea because we can expose the policy
> build up via the trusted key API and keep all the TPM nastiness inside
> the kernel.

/Jarkko
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