Author: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>

This document describes the operation and command line interface of
vtpmmgr-stubdom. See docs/misc/vtpm.txt for details on the vTPM subsystem as a
whole.

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Overview
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The TPM Manager has three primary functions:

1. Securely store the encryption keys for vTPMs
2. Provide a single controlled path of access to the physical TPM
3. Provide evidence (via TPM Quotes) of the current configuration

When combined with a platform that provides a trusted method for creating
domains, the TPM Manager provides assurance that the private keys in a vTPM are
only available in specific trusted configurations.

The manager accepts commands from the vtpm-stubdom domains via the mini-os TPM
backend driver. The vTPM manager communicates directly with hardware TPM using
the mini-os tpm_tis driver.

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Boot Configurations and TPM Groups
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The TPM Manager's data is secured by using the physical TPM's seal operation,
which allows data to be bound to specific PCRs. These PCRs are populated in the
physical TPM during the boot process, either by the firmware/BIOS or by a
dynamic launch environment such as TBOOT. In order to provide assurance of the
system's security, the PCRs used to seal the TPM manager's data must contain
measurements for domains used to bootstrap the TPM Manager and vTPMs.

Because these measurements are based on hashes, they will change any time that
any component of the system is upgraded. Since it is not possible to construct a
list of all possible future good measurements, the job of approving
configurations is delegated to a third party, referred to here as the system
approval agent (SAA). The SAA is identified by its public (RSA) signature key,
which is used to sign lists of valid configurations. A single TPM manager can
support multiple SAAs via the use of vTPM groups. Each group is associated with
a single SAA; this allows the creation of a multi-tenant environment where
tenants may not all choose to trust the same SAA.

Each vTPM is bound to a vTPM group at the time of its creation. Each vTPM group
has its own AIK in the physical TPM for quotes of the hardware TPM state; when
used with a conforming Privacy CA, this allows each group on the system to form
the basis of a distinct identity.

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Initial Provisioning
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When the TPM Manager first boots up, it will create a stub vTPM group along with
entries for any vTPMs that communicate with it. This stub group must be
provisioned with an SAA and a boot configuration in order to survive a reboot.

When a vTPM is connected to the TPM Manager using a UUID that is not recognized,
a slot will be created in group 0 for it. In the future, this auto-creation may
be restricted to specific UUIDs (such as the all-zero UUID) to enforce the use
of the TPM manager as the generator of the UUID. The first vTPM to be connected
is given administrative privileges for the TPM Manager, and should be attached
to dom0 or a control domain in order to send provisioning commands.

Provisioning a vTPM group for the system requires the public key of the SAA and
privacy CA data used to certify the AIK (see the TPM spec for details). Once the
group is created, a signed list of boot measurements can be installed. The
initial group controls the ability to boot the system as a whole, and cannot be
deleted once provisioned.

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Command Line Arguments
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Command line arguments are passed to the domain via the 'extra' parameter in the
VM config file. Each parameter is separated by white space. For example:

extra="foo=bar baz"

Valid arguments:

owner_auth=<AUTHSPEC>
srk_auth=<AUTHSPEC>
	Set the owner and SRK authdata for the TPM. If not specified, the
	default is 160 zero bits (the well-known auth value). Valid values of
	<AUTHSPEC> are:
		well-known   Use the well known auth (default)
		hash:<HASH>  Use the given 40-character ASCII hex string
		text:<STR>   Use sha1 hash of <STR>.

tpmdriver=<DRIVER>
	Choose the driver used for communication with the hardware TPM. Values
	other than tpm_tis should only be used for testing.

	The possible values of <DRIVER> are:
		tpm_tis    Direct communication with a hardware TPM 1.2.  The
                           domain must have access to TPM IO memory. (default)
		tpmfront   Use the Xen tpmfront interface to talk to another
                           domain which provides access to the TPM.

The following options only apply to the tpm_tis driver:

tpmiomem=<ADDR>: The base address of the hardware memory pages of the TPM.
	The default is 0xfed40000, as defined by the TCG's PC Client spec.

tpmirq=<IRQ>: The irq of the hardware TPM if using interrupts. A value of
	"probe" can be set to probe for the irq. A value of 0 disables
	interrupts and uses polling (default 0).

tpmlocality=<LOC>: Attempt to use locality <LOC> of the hardware TPM.
	For full functionality of the TPM Manager, this should be set to "2".

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Platform Security Assumptions
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While the TPM Manager has the ability to check the hash of the vTPM requesting a
key, there is currently no trusted method to inform the TPM Manager of the hash
of each new domain.  Because of this, the TPM Manager trusts the UUID key in
Xenstore to identify a vTPM in a trusted manner.  The XSM policy may be used to
strengthen this assumption if the creation of vTPM-labeled domains is more
constrained (for example, only permitted to a domain builder service): the only
grants mapped by the TPM Manager should belong to vTPM domains, so restricting
the ability to map other domain's granted pages will prevent other domains from
directly requesting keys from the TPM Manager.  The TPM Manager uses the hash of
the XSM label of the attached vTPM as the kernel hash, so vTPMs with distinct
labels may be further partitioned using vTPM groups.

A domain with direct access to the hardware TPM will be able to decrypt the TPM
Manager's disk image if the haredware TPM's PCR values are in a permitted
configuration.  To protect the TPM Manager's data, the list of permitted
configurations should be chosen to include PCRs that measure the hypervisor,
domain 0, the TPM Manager, and other critical configuration such as the XSM
policy.  If the TPM Manager is configured to use locality 2 as recommended, it
is safe to permit the hardware domain to access locality 0 (the default in
Linux), although concurrent use of the TPM should be avoided as it can result in
unexpected busy errors from the TPM driver.  The ability to access locality 2 of
the TPM should be enforced using IO memory labeling in the XSM policy; the
physical address 0xFED42xxx is always locality 2 for TPMs using the TIS driver.

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Appendix: unsecured migration process for vtpmmgr domain upgrade
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There is no direct upgrade supported from previous versions of the vtpmmgr
domain due to changes in the on-disk format and the method used to seal data.
If a vTPM domain supports migration, this feature should be used to migrate the
vTPM's data; however, the vTPM packaged with Xen does not yet support migration.

If adding migration support to the vTPM is not desired, a simpler migration
domain usable only for local migration can be constructed. The migration process
would look like the following:

1. Start the old vtpmmgr
2. Start the vTPM migration domain
3. Attach the vTPM migration domain's vtpm/0 device to the old vtpmmgr
4. Migration domain executes vtpmmgr_LoadHashKey on vtpm/0
5. Start the new vtpmmgr, possibly shutting down the old one first
6. Attach the vTPM migration domain's vtpm/1 device to the new vtpmmgr
7. Migration domain executes vtpmmgr_SaveHashKey on vtpm/1

This requires the migration domain to be added to the list of valid vTPM kernel
hashes. In the current version of the vtpmmgr domain, this is the hash of the
XSM label, not the kernel.