Re: [PATCH 1/4] keys: Introduce tsm keys

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Fri Jul 28 2023 - 15:40:47 EST


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