[tpm2] Re: Is the tpm2_create command safe against sniffing attacks?

Hi Joseph, TPM 2.0 offers Parameter Encryption capability and HMAC sessions as measures against Man-in-the-middle attacks. Examples in wolfTPM demonstrate how to enable Parameter Encryption https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfTPM/blob/b0a65e44b8a25be88b2f9ff4e35fbf083... There is also Keygen , Key import and Key loading examples with Parameter Encryption https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfTPM/blob/b0a65e44b8a25be88b2f9ff4e35fbf083... Last week we discussed the Dolos Group story about a stolen laptop with TPM https://developers.tpm.dev/posts/15883726 If Parameter Encryption and HMAC session have been used, this story would have developed differently. Hope this helps. Dimi -- Founder of TPM.dev -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joseph Lee (ZeronsoftN) <joseph(a)zeronsoftn.com&gt; Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2021 2:09 AM To:tpm2@lists.01.org <tpm2(a)lists.01.org&gt; Subject: [tpm2] Is the tpm2_create command safe against sniffing attacks? Hello, https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/TPM-sniffing In this article, can see that communication with the TPM is vulnerable to sniffing if not careful. https://tpm2-software.github.io/2020/04/13/Disk-Encryption.html Is the disk encryption described in tpm2-software's blog safe against these attacks? tpm2_createprimary -Q -C o -c prim.ctx dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=32 status=none | tpm2_create -Q -g sha256 -u seal.pub -r seal.priv -i- -C prim.ctx tpm2_load -Q -C prim.ctx -u seal.pub -r seal.priv -n seal.name -c seal.ctx tpm2_evictcontrol -C o -c seal.ctx 0x81010001 My question is: 1. Is there a tool in linux that can sniff communication with the current system's TPM? 2. How to encrypt communications if the methods described above are not secure? It seems that encryption is possible through tpm2_startauthsession , but I do not know how to apply it to tpm2_create . (The -S option simply did not work.) Thank you.