[Linux-ima-user] remote attestation using IMA

[Amruta G. G. <am...@cs...>]

Hello,

I am trying to develop an application which would do remote attestation
using the measurement list produced by IMA. It is a simple
prover-verifier set-up where the prover will present the measurement
list along with the aggregate value stored in PCR and the verifier will
check whether the measurements match. The two machine would be remote
and will communicate over the network.

The IBM web-page given here --
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/ssd_ima.index.html/$FILE/response.xml
-- illustrates a sample response sent from prover to verifier. My
question is, do I need to use XML to exchange messages between prover
and verifier? (I suppose XML was used to make it language independent
and platform independent.. are there other benefits of using XML?)

Thank you, in advance, for any suggestions offered.

Regards,
Amruta