Integrity

An understanding of integrity is crucial to an understanding of TPs and warrants this separate description, even though aspects of these processes have already been described. Chapter 6 is devoted to a more detailed explanation of TCPA functionality for integrity measurement and reporting. Chapter 12 covers how such functionality can be used to allow users to check out a platform online before entering into transactions with that platform and to provide a basis of trust.

You may recall that the RTM and measurement agents cooperate to measure and store condensed values of integrity metrics in PCRs inside a TPM.

  • The Root of Trust for Measurement (RTM) and associated measurement agents measure information about the platform and store a ...

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