Attestation Utilities

Attestation Utility Library

The attestation utility library is a set of routines used by many of the attestation-related programs that are included in this distribution. There are a number of files, each with a number of separate subroutines, covering the gamut of functions from generating the XML code required to build an Integrity Measurement Report to encoding and decoding binary blobs of information sent to or received from the Trusted Platform Module. This library is compiled and build as a shared object library that is dynamically linked by the other software modules.

This modules is delivered as a source rpm, which when build generates two binary rpms, attestutils and attestutils-devel, which is required to build software that wishes to use the routines in attestutils. This code is designed to run on the client system, although some of the routines are included in the [Verify IMR] module which runs on the Policy Decision Point.