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tpm2_encodeobject(1) General Commands Manual tpm2_encodeobject(1) NAME tpm2_encodeobject(1) - Encode an object into a combined PEM format. SYNOPSIS tpm2_encodeobject [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION tpm2_encodeobject(1) - Encode both the private and public portions of an object into a combined PEM format used by tpm2-tss-engine. The tool reads private and public portions of an object and encodes it into a combined PEM format used by tpm2-tss-engine and other applica- tions. NOTE: Both private and public portions of the tpm key must be speci- fied. OPTIONS • -C, --parent-context=OBJECT: The parent object. • -P, --auth=AUTH: The authorization value of the parent object specified by -C. • -u, --public=FILE: A file containing the public portion of the object. • -r, --private=FILE: A file containing the sensitive portion of the object. • -p, --key-auth: Indicates if an authorization value is needed for the object speci- fied by -r and -u. • -o, --output=FILE: The output file path, recording the public portion of the object. References Context Object Format The type of a context object, whether it is a handle or file name, is determined according to the following logic in-order: • If the argument is a file path, then the file is loaded as a restored TPM transient object. • If the argument is a prefix match on one of: • owner: the owner hierarchy • platform: the platform hierarchy • endorsement: the endorsement hierarchy • lockout: the lockout control persistent object • If the argument argument can be loaded as a number it will be treat as a handle, e.g. 0x81010013 and used directly._OBJECT_. Authorization Formatting Authorization for use of an object in TPM2.0 can come in 3 different forms: 1. Password 2. HMAC 3. Sessions NOTE: "Authorizations default to the EMPTY PASSWORD when not speci- fied". Passwords Passwords are interpreted in the following forms below using prefix identifiers. Note: By default passwords are assumed to be in the string form when they do not have a prefix. String A string password, specified by prefix "str:" or it's absence (raw string without prefix) is not interpreted, and is directly used for au- thorization. Examples foobar str:foobar Hex-string A hex-string password, specified by prefix "hex:" is converted from a hexidecimal form into a byte array form, thus allowing passwords with non-printable and/or terminal un-friendly characters. Example hex:1122334455667788 File A file based password, specified be prefix "file:" should be the path of a file containing the password to be read by the tool or a "-" to use stdin. Storing passwords in files prevents information leakage, passwords passed as options can be read from the process list or common shell history features. Examples # to use stdin and be prompted file:- # to use a file from a path file:path/to/password/file # to echo a password via stdin: echo foobar | tpm2_tool -p file:- # to use a bash here-string via stdin: tpm2_tool -p file:- <<< foobar Sessions When using a policy session to authorize the use of an object, prefix the option argument with the session keyword. Then indicate a path to a session file that was created with tpm2_startauthsession(1). Option- ally, if the session requires an auth value to be sent with the session handle (eg policy password), then append a + and a string as described in the Passwords section. Examples To use a session context file called session.ctx. session:session.ctx To use a session context file called session.ctx AND send the authvalue mypassword. session:session.ctx+mypassword To use a session context file called session.ctx AND send the HEX auth- value 0x11223344. session:session.ctx+hex:11223344 PCR Authorizations You can satisfy a PCR policy using the "pcr:" prefix and the PCR mini- language. The PCR minilanguage is as follows: <pcr-spec>=<raw-pcr- file> The PCR spec is documented in in the section "PCR bank specifiers". The raw-pcr-file is an optional argument that contains the output of the raw PCR contents as returned by tpm2_pcrread(1). PCR bank specifiers Examples To satisfy a PCR policy of sha256 on banks 0, 1, 2 and 3 use a specifi- er of: pcr:sha256:0,1,2,3 specifying AUTH. COMMON OPTIONS This collection of options are common to many programs and provide in- formation that many users may expect. • -h, --help=[man|no-man]: Display the tools manpage. By default, it attempts to invoke the manpager for the tool, however, on failure will output a short tool summary. This is the same behavior if the "man" option argument is specified, however if explicit "man" is re- quested, the tool will provide errors from man on stderr. If the "no-man" option if specified, or the manpager fails, the short op- tions will be output to stdout. To successfully use the manpages feature requires the manpages to be installed or on MANPATH, See man(1) for more details. • -v, --version: Display version information for this tool, supported tctis and exit. • -V, --verbose: Increase the information that the tool prints to the console during its execution. When using this option the file and line number are printed. • -Q, --quiet: Silence normal tool output to stdout. • -Z, --enable-errata: Enable the application of errata fixups. Useful if an errata fixup needs to be applied to commands sent to the TPM. Defining the environment TPM2TOOLS_ENABLE_ERRATA is equivalent. in- formation many users may expect. TCTI Configuration The TCTI or "Transmission Interface" is the communication mechanism with the TPM. TCTIs can be changed for communication with TPMs across different mediums. To control the TCTI, the tools respect: 1. The command line option -T or --tcti 2. The environment variable: TPM2TOOLS_TCTI. Note: The command line option always overrides the environment vari- able. The current known TCTIs are: • tabrmd - The resource manager, called tabrmd (https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-abrmd). Note that tabrmd and abrmd as a tcti name are synonymous. • mssim - Typically used for communicating to the TPM software simula- tor. • device - Used when talking directly to a TPM device file. • none - Do not initalize a connection with the TPM. Some tools allow for off-tpm options and thus support not using a TCTI. Tools that do not support it will error when attempted to be used without a TCTI connection. Does not support ANY options and MUST BE presented as the exact text of "none". The arguments to either the command line option or the environment variable are in the form: <tcti-name>:<tcti-option-config> Specifying an empty string for either the <tcti-name> or <tcti-option- config> results in the default being used for that portion respective- ly. TCTI Defaults When a TCTI is not specified, the default TCTI is searched for using dlopen(3) semantics. The tools will search for tabrmd, device and mssim TCTIs IN THAT ORDER and USE THE FIRST ONE FOUND. You can query what TCTI will be chosen as the default by using the -v option to print the version information. The "default-tcti" key-value pair will indi- cate which of the aforementioned TCTIs is the default. Custom TCTIs Any TCTI that implements the dynamic TCTI interface can be loaded. The tools internally use dlopen(3), and the raw tcti-name value is used for the lookup. Thus, this could be a path to the shared library, or a li- brary name as understood by dlopen(3) semantics. TCTI OPTIONS This collection of options are used to configure the various known TCTI modules available: • device: For the device TCTI, the TPM character device file for use by the device TCTI can be specified. The default is /dev/tpm0. Example: -T device:/dev/tpm0 or export TPM2TOOLS_TCTI="de- vice:/dev/tpm0" • mssim: For the mssim TCTI, the domain name or IP address and port number used by the simulator can be specified. The default are 127.0.0.1 and 2321. Example: -T mssim:host=localhost,port=2321 or export TPM2TOOLS_TC- TI="mssim:host=localhost,port=2321" • abrmd: For the abrmd TCTI, the configuration string format is a se- ries of simple key value pairs separated by a `,' character. Each key and value string are separated by a `=' character. • TCTI abrmd supports two keys: 1. `bus_name' : The name of the tabrmd service on the bus (a string). 2. `bus_type' : The type of the dbus instance (a string) limited to `session' and `system'. Specify the tabrmd tcti name and a config string of bus_name=com.ex- ample.FooBar: \--tcti=tabrmd:bus_name=com.example.FooBar Specify the default (abrmd) tcti and a config string of bus_type=ses- sion: \--tcti:bus_type=session NOTE: abrmd and tabrmd are synonymous. the various known TCTI mod- ules. EXAMPLES Setup To load an object you first must create an object under a primary ob- ject. So the first step is to create the primary object. tpm2_createprimary -c primary.ctx Step 2 is to create an object under the primary object. tpm2_create -C primary.ctx -u key.pub -r key.priv -f pem -o pub.pem This creates the private and public portions of the TPM object. With these object portions, it is now possible to load that object into the TPM for subsequent use. Encoding an Object into a combined PEM format The final step, is encoding the public and private portions of the ob- ject into a PEM format. tpm2_encodeobject -C primary.ctx -u key.pub -r key.priv -o priv.pem The generated priv.pem can be used together with pub.pem created in the step 2 of Setup section. Returns Tools can return any of the following codes: • 0 - Success. • 1 - General non-specific error. • 2 - Options handling error. • 3 - Authentication error. • 4 - TCTI related error. • 5 - Non supported scheme. Applicable to tpm2_testparams. BUGS Github Issues (https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tools/issues) HELP See the Mailing List (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listin- fo/tpm2) tpm2-tools tpm2_encodeobject(1)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | Context Object Format | Authorization Formatting | COMMON OPTIONS | TCTI Configuration | TCTI OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | Returns | BUGS | HELP
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