A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0

A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0: Using the Trusted Platform Module in the New Age of Security is a straight-forward primer for developers. It shows security and TPM concepts, demonstrating their use in real applications that the reader can try out.Simply put, this book is designed to empower and excite the programming community to go out and do cool things with the TPM. The approach is to ramp the reader up quickly and keep their interest.A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0: Using the Trusted Platform Module in the New Age of Security explains security concepts, describes the TPM 2.0 architecture, and provides code and pseudo-code examples in parallel, from very simple concepts and code to highly complex concepts and pseudo-code.

The book includes instructions for the available execution environments and real code examples to get readers up and talking to the TPM quickly. The authors then help the users expand on that with pseudo-code descriptions of useful applications using the TPM.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: History of the TPM

Chapter 2: Basic Security Concepts

Chapter 3: Quick Tutorial on TPM 2.0

Chapter 4: Existing Applications That Use TPMs

Chapter 5: Navigating the Specification

Chapter 6: Execution Environment

Chapter 7: TPM Software Stack

Chapter 8: TPM Entities

Chapter 9: Hierarchies

Chapter 10: Keys

Chapter 11: NV Indexes

Chapter 12: Platform Configuration Registers

Chapter 13: Authorizations and Sessions

Chapter 14: Extended Authorization (EA) Policies

Chapter 15: Key Management

Chapter 16: Auditing TPM Commands

Chapter 17: Decrypt/Encrypt Sessions

Chapter 19: Startup, Shutdown, and Provisioning

Chapter 20: Debugging

Chapter 21: Solving Bigger Problems with the TPM 2.0

Chapter 22: Platform Security Technologies That Use TPM 2.0

About the Author

Will Arthur is a server TXT architect and lead developer for Intel Corporation; currently developing TSS 2.0 system API specification and code; participant in TCG TPM 2.0 readability sub group, TPM workgroup, and TSS workgroup. He has a BS in Computer Science from Arizona State University and has worked in the embedded firmware, BIOS and low level software space for over 25 years.