Hi Joanna,

> Unfortunately, the datasheet, nor any other document I was able to find,
> tells how one could retrieve such a certificate out of the TPM's NV
> memory. And ideally that this worked for all the TPMs from all sorts of
> vendors...

  This info lives in the TPM Main Structures spec, section 19.1.2,
under NV Reserved index values:

0x0000F000      TPM_NV_INDEX_EKCert

  Reading this NV index should get you the EK Cert if the vendor supports it.

Kent

> Of course, without being able to authenticate the EK key, all the Remote
> Attestation schemes are pretty useless in practice, so I thought this
> might be a good list to ask this question, as one of the primary
> applications of tboot is remote attestation actually. Plus, tboot has
> quite a few tools to talk to the TPM.
>
> Thanks,
> joanna.
>
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