A popular commercial virtualization platform allows for the creation of virtual hardware. To virtual machines, this virtual hardware is indistinguishable from real hardware. By implementing…

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Options

• ASoftware-based root of trust
• BContinuous chain of trust
• CChain of trust with a hardware root of trust
• DSoftware-based trust anchor with no root of trust

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  8% (2)
• C
  71% (17)
• D
  17% (4)

Explanation

A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a microchip designed to provide basic security-related functions, primarily involving encryption keys. The TPM is usually installed on the motherboard of a computer, and it communicates with the remainder of the system by using a hardware bus. A vTPM is a virtual Trusted Platform Module; a virtual instance of the TPM. IBM extended the current TPM V1.2 command set with virtual TPM management commands that allow us to create and delete instances of TPMs. Each created instance of a TPM holds an association with a virtual machine (VM) throughout its lifetime on the platform. The TPM is the hardware root of trust. Chain of trust means to extend the trust boundary from the root(s) of trust, in order to extend the collection of trustworthy functions. Implies/entails transitive trust. Therefore a virtual TPM is a chain of trust from the hardware TPM (root of trust).

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