[PATCH v6 06/14] x86: Add early SHA support for Secure Launch early measurements

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 03:24:04PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, May 12 2023 at 12:28, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Unless we assert that SHA-1 events are unsupported, it seems a bit odd 
> > to force a policy on people who have both banks enabled. People with 
> > mixed fleets are potentially going to be dealing with SHA-1 measurements 
> > for a while yet, and while there's obviously a security benefit in using 
> > SHA-2 instead it'd be irritating to have to maintain two attestation 
> > policies.
> 
> Why?
> 
> If you have a mixed fleet then it's not too much asked to provide two
> data sets. On a TPM2 system you can enforce SHA-2 and only fallback to
> SHA-1 on TPM 1.2 hardware. No?

No, beause having TPM2 hardware doesn't guarantee that your firmware 
enables SHA-2 (which also means this is something that could change with 
firmware updates, which means that refusing to support SHA-1 if the 
SHA-2 banks are enabled could result in an entirely different policy 
being required (and plausibly one that isn't implemented in their 
existing tooling)