-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Berg <benjamin(a)sipsolutions.net>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 17:27 PM
To: Zhu, Bing <bing.zhu(a)intel.com>; Roberts, William C
<william.c.roberts(a)intel.com>; tpm2(a)lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [tpm2] Re: Possible TPM uses in fprintd/libfprint
Hi,
On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 01:10 +0000, Zhu, Bing wrote:
> Given that you already have a SDCP-capable sensor (like fingerprint),
> and you also have a trusted execution environment (TEE), then SDCP
> should work perfectly for you. on MSFT windows, virtualization-based
> security (VBS) provides a TEE to allow you to do that. In other OSs,
> you can use Intel SGX-based solution to securely talk with your sensor
> based on SDCP security protocols.
Yeah. I don't think I need to secure the channel though. This is about being
able to fully trust the process that it has correctly verified the Fingerprint
readers authenticity, that it is not itself a vector for a MitM attack or can
simply be bypassed somehow.
The idea mentioned earlier to include the SDCP enabled device in the boot
measurements would not require any further safety precautions. It would be
perfectly viable to verify and include the devices public-key (and firmware hash)
in the measurements.
> Now, may I have a question - what problems would you like to solve if
> you need to add TPM?
I don't really think that adding a TPM will solve an issues in itself.
If I "just" authenticate a user on an already running system, then the entire
authentication stack is trusted anyway. SDPC does add a bit more security as it
allows to verify the integrity of the reader. But I don't think that a TPM would
make a major difference in this scenario.
My primary example of a new use-case would be to enable per-user disk
encryption and password less (or multi-factor) login together with the
Fingerprint reader.
In such a scenario the Fingerprint reader does not just authenticate the user.
Instead it also enables unsealing secrets for the user after the finger was
presented (e.g. a disk encryption key). Protecting these secrets seems like a
much harder problem than only authenticating the user.
In my opinion, biometrics authentications are typically treated as "Secondary
authentication" methods, while the password/pin are "primacy
authentication"... then if you look at all the current designs in all the mobile
devices, you will see that even if you have password and fingerprint methods to login your
system, but after reboot the device, in the first login attempt, the system always asks
for password to unlock your system, not a fingerprint.. also whenever you change
fingerprint enrollment, you must have to provide your password. And not vice visa.
So, as an industry standard security practice, biometrics authentication typically is
~not~ used for ~first~ login attempt after device reboot. In your case scenarios, disk
decryption, typically it is always happening during the ~first~ login attempt. So
password should be used instead, to comply with industry secure practice.
Benjamin
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roberts, William C <william.c.roberts(a)intel.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 22:48 PM
> > To: Benjamin Berg <benjamin(a)sipsolutions.net>; tpm2(a)lists.01.org
> > Subject: [tpm2] Re: Possible TPM uses in fprintd/libfprint
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Benjamin Berg [mailto:benjamin@sipsolutions.net]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 9:24 AM
> > > To: tpm2(a)lists.01.org
> > > Subject: [tpm2] Possible TPM uses in fprintd/libfprint
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if someone has ideas about integrating the TPM
> > > with Fingerprint readers.
> > >
> > > Recently I started looking into supporting Secure Device
> > > Connection Protocol (SDCP, [1]) in libfprint. The general idea is
> > > to verify that the Fingerprint reader can be trusted, but I
> > > initially also imagined that further use-cases like unsealing data
> > > in a TPM may be possible (e.g. to
> > retrieve disk encryption keys).
> > > However, looking into it more, my current conclusion is that there
> > > is little to no advantage to use the TPM. At least not unless one
> > > also has a trusted (userspace)
> >
> > In theory you would have a measured boot environment. This way you
> > can attest the host is in a good state. You could further isolate by
> > have a segregated userspace components through things like Trustlets
> > or SGX Enclaves. The general paradigm of security is to take
> > sensitive operations and move them out of band to a smaller
> > execution environment, this paradigm can be extended infinitely, but
> > the restrictions here lie in the realm of how much work do you want
> > to do, which is determining by what you're trying to protect.
> >
> > > program which is capable of signing TPM authorizations. One could
> > > easily offload the required parts into a small helper, but that
> > > may require ensuring it runs in a trusted execution environment.
> > > Microsoft seems to run relevant parts as trustlets that are walled
> > > off from the rest of the system. That seems sensible to me, but it
> > > also means requiring all the infrastructure for execution and
> > > signing and I doubt that is
> > feasible currently.
> >
> > You're still sharing hardware, which means that a potentially bad
> > host, could be undermining the hardware and VM protections. Granted
> > you have higher level of assurances, it's not a guarantee.
> >
> > >
> > > Right now I'll probably go the way of not using the TPM at all.
> > > But I
> > > am really not an expert for this. So should someone see scenarios
> > > where a TPM is actually helpful in this context, then I would like
> > > to hear about
> > them.
> >
> > You could do a measured boot scenario that included measuring the
> > state of the fingerprint reader (I'm assuming SCDO would give you
> > something like that).
> > Something has to cause the measurement to get extended into a PCR so
> > you can Get a quote and check later that it's all OK. If it's all
> > OK, you can then release a secret From the TPM. You can couple
> > keys/objects to this measured state.
> >
> > There is stuff on this in the Practical Guide to TPM2.0 and is
> > available os a ODF
> > download:
> >
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4302-6584-9.pd
> > f
> >
> >
> > > Benjamin
> > >
> > > PS: A quick summary of how SDCP works:
> > > * Device has a private ECC key that signs the firmware and
> > > ephemeral
> > > keys during boot (and is inaccessible afterwards)
> > > * A certificate proofs that this key was provisioned in factory
> > > * Device builds a shared secret with the host (s)
> > > * Device sends id, HMAC_SHA256(s, "identify" || nonce || id)
> > > when the finger "id" was presented.
> > > * The HMAC proofs knowledge of the shared secret and authorizes
> > > the
> > > print.
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
https://github.com/microsoft/SecureDeviceConnectionProtocol/wiki/S
> > > ecur
> > > e-
> > > Device-Connection-Protocol
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