On 06/15/2016 02:53 PM, David Van Arnem wrote:
> On 06/14/2016 02:55 AM, Jan Schermer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to buy AOM-TPM-9655V-S TPM module for my SuperMicro servers.
>> The *-S variant is provisioned for Intel TXT for server chipsets/procs, 
>> there's also *-C variant for i3/i5/i7 and Xeon E3 for workstations/clients.
>>
>> My distributor doesn't seem to have them in stock and no ETA. But they have 
>> lots of "AOM-TPM-9655V" (AKA unprovisioned).
>> If I understand what that means is it lacks the indexes needed for Intel TXT 
>> but also the nvLocked bit is set to 0 - which means all ACLs are off, which 
>> is mildly disturing if people are using them in production...
>>
>> There's something called "Intel Provisioning Utility" which executes in EFI 
>> and "provisons" the TPM as *-S or *-C variant but I was not able to get it 
>> yet, and sadly my distributor has never heard of it (doh).
>>
>> Does anybody know whether this is something I can do using only tpm-tools? 
>> Can I create all the needed indexes and set the nvLocked bit and get it 
>> working properly? (= with TXT working)
>> Or do I absolutely need this Intel utility because I does something magical 
>> I'm not aware of?

Oops, I just realized all this information was in your original email.
Sorry, should have re-read...

David
> 
> Based on a document from 2010 it looks OEMs can get a TPM provisioning
> tool for TXT from Intel:
> 
> https://downloadmirror.intel.com/18931/eng/Intel%20TXT%20LAB%20Handout.pdf
> (section 3.1 on page 12)
> 
> It specifically mentions locking the NVRAM, and looks like there's
> another tool for defining the NV indices.
> 
> I do know that tpm-tools allows for defining NVRAM indices and sizes,
> but I do not know which indices/sizes TXT uses.
> 
> David
> 
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jan
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