Re: [Teep] [Rats] EAT claims needed by TEEP

Appreciate the comments.  Think it is important to keep this generic since it is going in EAT. TEEP can have specific ways it uses HW class, but don’t think we should be referencing TEEP in EAT.

There’s also some comments filed as issues in GitHub <https://github.com/ietf-rats-wg/eat/pull/139>.

Seems like it’s the concatenation of HW OEM ID, HW Class and HW Version that pin point exactly what HW you have. HW Class is kind like a model number.

LL

> On Nov 9, 2021, at 5:39 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm reviewing the pull request at:
>   https://github.com/ietf-rats-wg/eat/pull/139/files
> 
> About the hardware-class-claim.
> 
>  "There is no global scheme or format for this claim."
> 
> So I wonder how TEEP's flow will deal with this.
> Forgive me if that's buried in TEEP somewhere.
> If so, I think that the EAT document should perhaps refer to that informatively.
> 
> I can see how the verifier can be okay with lack of scheme: the signing key on the
> evidence can index into a database of devices, and then it's a string
> comparison to see if the device claimed correctly.
> 
> But, equally well, the verifier already knows, via that database, what the
> value is.  The only utility I can see if that the RP is going to see this in
> the Attestation Results and use it to decide what binary to ask the TAM to
> load.
> 
> I'm concerned that any hardware vendor can put any value in this.
> The Verifier, provided by the hardware OEM, agrees.
> The only thing the RP can do is the rely on it's contract with the Verifier.
> That's actually the thing the RP ever does, I think: so don't mistake me.
> What I'm asking is, given that, is this claim even needed as evidence?
> Maybe it's only useful as Attestation Results.
> 
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