Stéphanie Delaune, Steve Kremer, Mark D. Ryan, and Graham Steel. A Formal Analysis of Authentication in the TPM. In Revised Selected Papers of the 7th International Workshop on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust (FAST'10), pp. 111–125, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6561, Springer, Pisa, Italy, September 2010.
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a hardware chip designed to enable computers to achieve a greater level of security than is possible in software alone. To this end, the TPM provides a way to store cryptographic keys and other sensitive data in its shielded memory. Through its API, one can use those keys to achieve some security goals. The TPM is a complex security component, whose specification consists of more than \(700\) pages.
We model a collection of four TPM commands, and we identify and formalise their security properties. Using the tool ProVerif, we rediscover some known attacks and some new variations on them. We propose modifications to the API and verify our properties for the modified API.
@inproceedings{DKRS-fast10,
abstract = {The Trusted Platform Module~(TPM) is a hardware chip
designed to enable computers to achieve a greater
level of security than is possible in software alone.
To this end, the TPM provides a way to store
cryptographic keys and other sensitive data in its
shielded memory. Through its API, one can use those
keys to achieve some security goals. The TPM is a
complex security component, whose specification
consists of more than \(700\)~pages.\par We model a
collection of four TPM commands, and we identify and
formalise their security properties. Using the tool
ProVerif, we rediscover some known attacks and some
new variations on them. We propose modifications to
the API and verify our properties for the modified
API.},
address = {Pisa, Italy},
author = {Delaune, St{\'e}phanie and Kremer, Steve and
Ryan, Mark D. and Steel, Graham},
booktitle = {{R}evised {S}elected {P}apers of the 7th
{I}nternational {W}orkshop on {F}ormal {A}spects in
{S}ecurity and {T}rust ({FAST}'10)},
OPTDOI = {10.1007/978-3-642-19751-2_8},
editor = {Degano, Pierpaolo and Etalle, Sandro and
Guttman, Joshua},
month = sep,
pages = {111-125},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
title = {A~Formal Analysis of Authentication in the {TPM}},
volume = {6561},
year = {2010},
acronym = {{FAST}'10},
nmonth = {9},
lsv-category = {intc},
wwwpublic = {public and ccsb},
}