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swtpm_cuse(8) swtpm_cuse(8)

NAME

swtpm - TPM Emulator for TPM 1.2 and 2.0 with a CUSE interface only

SYNOPSIS

swtpm_cuse [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

swtpm_cuse implements a TPM software emulator built on libtpms. It provides access to TPM functionality over a Linux CUSE (character device in user space) interface.

The swtpm_ioctl command should be used for a graceful shutdown of the CUSE TPM.

The following options are supported:

Display help screen.
This parameter allows to set the directory where the TPM will store its persistent state to. If this parameter is not set, the environment variable TPM_PATH can be set instead.
The name of the character device to create. To create /dev/vtpm-200, the given device name must be vtpm-200. The character device will be created automatically and use unused major and minor numbers unless they are explicitly requested through options.
The device major number to use; can be omitted.
The device minor number to use; can be omitted.
Choose TPM 2 functionality; by default a TPM 1.2 is chosen.
The user to switch to and drop privileges.
Enable logging to a file given its file descriptor or its path. Use '-' for path to suppress the logging.

The level parameter allows to choose the level of logging. Starting at log level 5, libtpms debug logging is activated.

All logged lines will be prefixed with prefix. By default no prefix is prepended.

If truncate is passed, the log file will be truncated.

The reject-locality-4 parameter will cause TPM error messages to be returned for requests to set the TPM into locality 4.

The allow-set-locality parameter allows the swtpm to receive TPM/TPM2_SetLocality commands. This is parameter is useful if the Linux VTPM proxy driver access is enabled by file descriptor passing. This option is implied by the --vtpm-proxy option and therefore need not be explicity set if this option is passed. In all other cases care should be taken as to who can send the TPM/TPM2_SetLocality command.

Enable encryption of the state files of the TPM. The keyfile must contain an AES key of supported size; 128 bit (16 bytes) and 256 bit (32 bytes) keys are supported.

The key may be in binary format, in which case the file size must be 16 or 32 bytes. If the key is in hex format (default), the key may consist of 32 or 64 hex digits starting with an optional '0x'.

The mode parameter indicates which block chaining mode is to be used. Currently aes-cbc (aes-128-cbc) and aes-256-cbc are supported. The encrypted data is integrity protected using encrypt-then-mac.

The remove parameter will attempt to remove the given keyfile once the key has been read.

This variant of the key parameter allows to provide a passphrase in a file. The file is read and a key is derived from it using either a SHA512 hash or PBKDF2. By default PBKDF2 is used.
The availability of a migration key ensures that the state of the TPM will not be revealed in unencrypted form by the swtpm_cuse program when the TPM state blobs are retreived through the ioctl interface. The migration key is not used for encrypting TPM state written to files, this is what the <I>--key<I> parameter is used for.

The migration key and the key used for encrypting the TPM state files may be the same.

While the key for the TPM state files needs to stay with those files it encrypts, the migration key needs to stay with the TPM state blobs. If for example the state of the TPM is migrated between hosts in a data center, then the TPM migration key must be available at all the destinations, so in effect it may have to be a key shared across all machines in the datacenter. In contrast to that, the key used for encrypting the TPM state <B>files<B> can be different for each TPM and need only be available on the host where the TPM state resides.

The migration key enables the encryption of the TPM state blobs. The keyfile must contain an AES key of supported size; 128 bit (16 bytes) and 256 bit (32 bytes) keys are supported.

The key may be in binary format, in which case the file size must be 16 or 32 bytes. If the key is in hex format (default), the key may consist of 32 or 64 hex digits starting with an optional '0x'.

The mode parameter indicates which block chaining mode is to be used. Currently aes-cbc (aes-128-cbc) and aes-256-cbc are supported. The encrypted data is integrity protected using encrypt-then-mac.

The remove parameter will attempt to remove the given keyfile once the key has been read.

This variant of the key parameter allows to provide a passphrase in a file. The file is read and a key is derived from it using either a SHA512 hash or PBKDF2. By default PBKDF2 is used.
This options allows to set the name of file where the process ID (pid) of the CUSE TPM will be written into. The file will be written by the root user. It is also possible to pass a file descriptor to a file that has been opened for writing.
This option allows to select the action to take by the seccomp profile when a syscall is executed that is not allowed. The default is kill. To disable the seccomp profile, choose none. The log action logs offending syscalls. The log action is only available if libseccomp supports logging.

This option is only available on Linux and only if swtpm was compiled with libseccomp support.

The not-need-init flag enables the TPM to accept TPM commands right after start without requiring an INIT to be sent to it through the command channel (see the '-i' option of swtpm_ioctl).

The startup options cause a TPM_Startup or TPM2_Startup command to automatically be sent. The startup-deactivated option is only valid for a TPM 1.2. These options imply not-need-init, except for the startup-none option, which results in no command being sent.

Print capabilities that were added to swtpm after version 0.1. The output may contain the following: 

    {
      "type": "swtpm",
      "features": [
        "cmdarg-seccomp",
        "cmdarg-key-fd"
      ],
      "version": "0.7.0"
    }

The version field is available since 0.7.

The meaning of the feature verbs is as follows:

The --seccomp option is supported.
The --key option supports the fd= parameter.

EXAMPLES

To start the CUSE TPM and have it create the character device /dev/foo, use the following commands:

 # ensure that previous swtpm_cuse using /dev/foo is gone
 swtpm_ioctl -s /dev/foo
 # Start the swtpm with TPM 2 functionality and make it accessible
 # through /dev/foo. Have the swtpm_cuse write the TPM's persistent
 # state into the given directory.
 export TPM_PATH=/tmp/foo
 mkdir -p $TPM_PATH
 swtpm_cuse -n foo --tpm2
 # Send TPM_Init to the TPM; this is absolutely necessary
 swtpm_ioctl -i /dev/foo

SEE ALSO

swtpm_bios, swtpm_ioctl

2023-05-02 swtpm