Re: [PATCH 0/4] tsm: Unified Measurement Register ABI for TVMs

From: Dionna Amalie Glaze
Date: Tue Feb 18 2025 - 18:59:16 EST


On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2/18/25 08:25, Dan Middleton wrote:
> > One common reason is to _identify the workload_ running in the VM.
> > Typically a VM attestation tells you that you booted to a clean state.
> > It is much more valuable to a Relying Party to know that they are
> > interacting
> > with a trusted application / workload.
> > Projects like CNCF Confidential Containers [1] and Attested Containers
> > [2] would like to do this.
>
> That's a _bit_ of a different story than the series author mentioned here:
>
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/be7e3c9d-208a-4bda-b8cf-9119f3e0c4ce@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> It would be great to see a solid, consistent story about what the
> purpose of this series is when v2 is posted. As always, it would be even
> better if it was obvious that this is not tied to one vendor or one
> architecture.
>
> If there are actual end users who care about this, it would be great to
> see their acks on it as well.
>

We would like to have this for Google Confidential Space and Kubernetes Engine.

Acked-by: Dionna Glaze <dionnaglaze@xxxxxxxxxx>


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-Dionna Glaze, PhD, CISSP, CCSP (she/her)