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A Practical Guide to Trusted Computing
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A Practical Guide to Trusted Computing

by David Challener, Kent Yoder, Ryan Catherman, David Safford, Leendert Van Doorn
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 30m
English
IBM Press
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Chapter 7

The TCG Software Stack

The entry point for any programmer writing a trusted computing-enabled application is the Trusted Computing Group Software Stack (TSS). The TSS specifications define an architecture that makes accessing the TPM simple and direct, while exposing all the functionality that the TPM provides in a vendor-neutral way. The TSS also provides APIs for functionality on top of that provided by the TPM, such as

  • The ability to store key objects persistently on disk
  • Connecting with TPMs on both local and remote machines
  • Conversion of data blobs between portable formats (TSS 1.2 only)

In this chapter, we cover the following topics:

  • The overall design and architecture of the TSS
  • TSS API conventions
  • TSS object types and their ...
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