On-Going Platform Support

Besides the operations that have to be carried out by the TPM owner in order to properly install and configure a TP, other operations have to be performed during the lifetime of the platform in order to allow backup and recovery from possible failure. This section looks again at these concepts of migration and maintenance, but this time with a usage viewpoint (rather than the procedural viewpoint of Chapters 1 and 8).

Backup and Migration

The full process of migration has already been described in Chapter 8. The following is a more general discussion about migration issues. The goal of migration is either to distribute TPM keys across multiple platforms' TPMs, or else to backup TPM keys to prevent their being lost in ...

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