On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 17:28 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> On 3/10/2017 4:36 PM, Ken Goldman wrote:
> > It's not a TCG standard, just a way of making sure the unused PCR bank
> > doesn't remain at zero, permitting forged measurements.
> >
> > As for the verifier, I ignore the bank I'm not interested in.  I don't
> > verify the truncated/padded bank.
> 
> Truncated/padded digests are needed, if after kexec different banks
> can be selected.

Right.  In our use case scenario, the initial Linux is Petitboot, a boot
loader, while the kexec'ed kernel image can be a distro or custom image.

Mimi
 
> This issue does not arise if all banks are extended only once,
> during IMA initialization. All digests should be passed to a new
> function defined in the TPM driver.
> 
> Roberto


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