Chapter 16

Moving from TSS 1.1 to TSS 1.2

For the most part, the move from 1.1 to 1.2 will be seamless. A lot of work was done in the 1.2 specification to make sure that programs written for the 1.1 stack would continue to work for the 1.2 stack. There is really only one exception. This has to do with the reading of the SRK public key. This now can be set to be possible only with the owner key, and by default this setting is selected on many implementations. Other changes to the TPM specification due to security holes were discovered early enough that the older broken functions never made it into the 1.1 TSS specification.

The biggest change going from 1.1 to 1.2 is the addition of a number of features to the TPM specification that are exposed ...

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