Chapter 9. Conventional Security Functions and Assorted Host Functions
This chapter describes some conventional security services and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) capabilities that relate to the hosting of the TPM in a TP. This chapter does not describe a general-purpose bulk encryption service, because a TP uses completely standard symmetric encryption. In any case, a TPM is not required to support symmetric encryption. This chapter also does not describe basic security principles. Such concepts are explained in Appendix C.
The following conventional security services are described in this chapter:
Signing
Generating random data
Discovering the properties of the TPM
Auditing the TPM
The following host functions are described in this chapter: ...
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