>From what I've been able to tell, this tool is obsolete and apparently
isn't built any more with the Ubuntu ecryptfs userspace tools.  As you
read in the IBM whitepaper, the ecryptfs-generate-tpm-key command is
used in conjunction with the TSPI key module of ecryptfs.

But a maintainer of ecryptfs has stated that the TSPI module was a proof
of concept (supposedly it doesn't perform well since it uses TPM on
every file I/O) and should not have made it into the upstream ecryptfs-
utils project to begin with:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/787907.  He said he was going
to remove it when kernel 3.1 was released; I suppose that has probably
happened by now.  (Maybe he missed the man page?)

Apparently the replacement is to use trusted and encrypted keys on the
kernel keyring, but I'm struggling with that, too:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/750792/practical-use-of-ecryptfs-
encrypted-keys-and-tpm-how-to-convert-existing-user

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  104-0ubuntu1.14.04.3 for AMD64 doesn't have ecryptfs-generate-tpm-key
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