On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:27:47AM -0600, Michael Roth wrote:
> At that point it's much easier for the guest owner to just check the
> CPUID values directly against known good values for a particular
> configuration as part of their attestation process and leave the
> untrusted cloud vendor out of it completely. So not measuring the
> CPUID page as part of SNP attestation allows for that flexibility.
Well, in that case, I guess you don't need the sanity-checking in the
guest either - you simply add it to the attestation TODO-list for the
guest owner to go through:
Upon booting, the guest owner should compare the CPUID leafs the guest
sees with the ones supplied during boot.
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