On Fri May 24, 2024 at 4:04 PM EEST, James Bottomley wrote:
> This is actually a generic policy allowing a range of comparisons
> against any value set in the TPM Clock, which includes things like the
> reset count, a monotonic millisecond count and the restart count.  The
> most useful comparison is against the millisecond count for expiring
> keys.  However, you have to remember that currently Linux doesn't try
> to sync the epoch timer with the TPM, so the expiration is actually
> measured in how long the TPM itself has been powered on ... the TPM
> timer doesn't count while the system is powered down.  The millisecond
> counter is a u64 quantity found at offset 8 in the timer structure,
> and the <= comparision operand is 9, so a policy set to expire after the
> TPM has been up for 100 seconds would look like
>
> 0000016d00000000000f424000080009

These random magic hex numbers confuse and do not bring any clarity.

Also, please learn to use multiple paragraph when you write text.
>
> Where 0x16d is the counter timer policy code and 0xf4240 is 100 000 in
> hex.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>

Skip because enough stuff to address in the head.

BR, Jarkko

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