[gnutls-help] GnuTLS-TPM handshake

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Mon May 11 18:42:38 CEST 2015


On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 07:43 +0000, Marcos Simó Picó wrote:
> Hello,  

> I think the function would extract the key since the description of
> the function, literally says: 
> This function can also accept URLs at  keyfile and  certfile . In
>        that case it will import the private key and certificate indicated by
>        the URLs. Note that the supported URLs are the ones indicated by
>        gnutls_url_is_supported().
> And according to the TPM literature, import the key means to extract it from the TPM and send it somewhere else. Please, correct me if I’m mistaken. 

The documentation is inaccurate in that case. I've corrected the wording
to "it will use the ...". In any case, you cannot extract a tpmkey
anyway.

regards,
Nikos






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