Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] TDX Guest Quote generation support

[Erdem Aktas]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 11:20 PM Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> In TDX guest, the attestation process is used to verify the TDX guest
> trustworthiness to other entities before provisioning secrets to the
> guest.
>
> The TDX guest attestation process consists of two steps:
>
> 1. TDREPORT generation
> 2. Quote generation.
>
> The First step (TDREPORT generation) involves getting the TDX guest
> measurement data in the format of TDREPORT which is further used to
> validate the authenticity of the TDX guest. The second step involves
> sending the TDREPORT to a Quoting Enclave (QE) server to generate a
> remotely verifiable Quote. TDREPORT by design can only be verified on
> the local platform. To support remote verification of the TDREPORT,
> TDX leverages Intel SGX Quoting Enclave to verify the TDREPORT
> locally and convert it to a remotely verifiable Quote. Although
> attestation software can use communication methods like TCP/IP or
> vsock to send the TDREPORT to QE, not all platforms support these
> communication models. So TDX GHCI specification [1] defines a method
> for Quote generation via hypercalls. Please check the discussion from
> Google [2] and Alibaba [3] which clarifies the need for hypercall based
Thanks Sathyanarayanan for submitting patches again.

I just wanted to reiterate what I said before that having a clean
TDVMCALL based interface to get TDX Quote without any virtio/vsock
dependency  is critical for us to support many use cases.