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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] tsm: Runtime measurement registers ABI
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On Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM EET, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Some confidential computing architectures (Intel TDX, ARM CCA, RISC-V
> CoVE) provide their guests with a set of measurements registers that can
> be extended at runtime, i.e. after the initial, host-initiated
> measurements of the TVM are finalized. Those runtime measurement
> registers (RTMR) are isolated from the host accessible ones but TSMs
> include them in their signed attestation reports.

Please expand "TSM" acronym and explain what it is.

> All architectures supporting RTMRs expose a similar interface to their

Please expand RTMR *everywhere* ot "measurement registers". It is
totally useless terminology.

> TVMs: An extension command/call that takes a measurement value and an

What is TVM?

> RTMR index to extend it with, and a readback command for reading an RTMR
> value back (taking an RTMR index as an argument as well). This patch series
> builds an architecture agnostic, configfs-based ABI for userspace to extend
> and read RTMR values back. It extends the current TSM ops structure and
> each confidential computing architecture can implement this extension to
> provide RTMR support.

This patch set should simplify its gibberish terminology to common
language.

BR, Jarkko

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