Re: [Linux-ima-user] remote attestation using IMA

[Seiji M. <sei...@gm...>]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Amruta G. Gokhale
<am...@cs...> wrote:
> 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?)

For your reference,
TCG has been defined several XML schema to describe these messages.

http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/resources/tcg_xml_schemas/

They are much more complicated.
Of course, If you do not need any interoperability, you can use any format
what you like. :-)

We had been developed Open Platform Trust Services (OpenPTS) based on
these schema.

regards
--
Seiji Munetoh