On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:45:14PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 10:12 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:27:43PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 02:42 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:02:28AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > > This patch adds a policy= argument to key creation. The policy > > > > > is > > > > > the standard tss policymaker format and each separate policy > > > > > line > > > > > must have a newline after it. > > > > > > > > Never heard of policymaker before and did not find TCG spec for > > > > it. > > > > > > It's not part of the spec. Both the IBM and Intel TSSs define a > > > policymaker tool to help you build policy hashes. The format is > > > simply > > > a set of numbers that if hashed a line at a time produce the policy > > > hash. > > > > OK, so they both use this 'policymaker' format? Where is it > > documented? > > I don't think it is except in the source code of the tools. It's > basically a sequence of TPM2_PolicyXX statements laid out in binary end > to end one per line as the TPM2 command value says they are hashed. I > can just say that if you prefer. The example given is There is no "the tools". There are multiple user space stacks. I think that the format should be documented to Documents/security/tpm. /Jarkko