[Freeipa-devel] GSS-Proxy <-> TPM <-> PKCS#11 (silly idea)

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 14:51 +0100, Petr Spacek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have got an silly idea to use TPM (Trusted Platform Module) as backend for 
> Keytab storage (via GSS-Proxy).
> 
> GSS-Proxy prevents application from accessing key material, right? So 
> GSS-Proxy could theoretically store keys in TPM and application wouldn't 
> notice any difference, right?
> 
> We have libraries for that in Fedora already:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/trousers
> 
> 
> Even sillier idea is to use TPM as a PKCS#11 module:
> http://trousers.sourceforge.net/pkcs11.html
> 
> I have no idea what the use case could be ... :-) May be as a "cache" for 
> PKCS#11 module in SSSD?
> 
> 
> As I said, it is just a silly idea.
> 

Open a ticket in the GSS-Proxy trac :)

Simo.

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