Is anyone here using their hardware TPM chips for credentials? - eviltoast

I’m curious about the possible uses of the hardware Trusted Protection Module for automatic login or transfer encryption. I’m not really looking to solve anything or pry. I’m just curious about the use cases as I’m exploring network attached storage and to a lesser extent self hosting. I see a lot of places where public private keys are generated and wonder why I don’t see people mention generating the public key from TPM where the private key is never accessible at all.

  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
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    11 months ago

    I have read that article, it doesn’t seem to mention that TPM will erase key if a different OS is loaded, maybe I missed something?

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      11 months ago

      It talsk about pcr, every time another OS is booted some pcsrs are changed, and if the keys are installed on the correct ones, this will lead to it being erased