Introduction

The measured launch implementation requires an x86 device with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), Intel CPU and firmware that supports Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT).

The following items are measured:

• Device firmware
• BIOS configuration
• grub2 bootloader and boot config file
• CPU microcode loaded at runtime
• TXT Authenticated Code Modules
• tboot, trusted boot measurement and launch pre-VMM software module
• Xen hypervisor and the Xen boot command line
• XSM/flask policy
• Linux kernel and the kernel boot command line
• Linux initial ramdisk, initrd
• dom0 filesystem (read-only)
• network driver VM filesystem (read-only)

Capabilities

Version 6.x (2016)

• TPM 1.2

Version 7.x (2017)

• TPM 2.0
• Forward Seal Test Procedures (pre-compute PCRs for unattended upgrade)
• Improved key management (2015 design discussion)

Version 8.x (2018)

• UEFI/SecureBoot support:  RFCv1  • RFCv2

Future Work

• Virtual TPMs

• Attestation

• UEFI multi-boot modules

• Key recovery

Related Documentation

Measured Launch Source Code

OpenXT

• https://github.com/OpenXT/xenclient-oe/tree/master/recipes-openxt/openxt

• https://github.com/OpenXT/xenclient-oe/tree/master/recipes-openxt/tboot

• https://github.com/OpenXT/xenclient-oe/tree/master/recipes-openxt/tss

• https://github.com/OpenXT/xenclient-oe/tree/master/recipes-openxt/tpm-tools

• https://github.com/OpenXT/xenclient-oe/tree/master/recipes-openxt/xenclient/xenclient-tpm-scripts

• https://github.com/OpenXT/xenclient-oe/tree/master/recipes-openxt/xenclient/xenclient-tpm-setup

• https://github.com/OpenXT/xenclient-oe/tree/master/recipes-openxt/xenclient/xenclient-root-ro

OpenEmbedded

• https://github.com/flihp/meta-measured

Intel

• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/tboot/code
• https://github.com/01org/tpm2.0-tss.git
• https://github.com/01org/tpm2.0-tools.git

TPM Emulation

• https://github.com/starlab-io/docker-tpm-emulator

• https://github.com/starlab-io/docker-tpm2-emulator

• https://github.com/PeterHuewe/tpm-emulator

Related Work

Secure Boot

• https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-security
• https://github.com/WindRiver-OpenSourceLabs/meta-secure-env
• https://github.com/jiazhang0/meta-secure-core

Ecosystem

• Qubes: Anti Evil Maid (2011)
• OpenXT: In Device We Trust: Measure Twice, Compute Once with Xen, Linux, TPM 2.0 and TXT (2017)
• Open Source Foundries: Secure OTA Collaboration (2017)
• Google: Replace UEFI with Linux (2017)  • Video
• HP SureStart BIOS protection:  Coprocessor detection of attacks against SMM (2017)
• Microsoft: Hardening with Hardware (2018)  • Video

Xen

• https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Category:OpenEmbedded

OpenXT ML JIRA Issues