Attendees


Abhishek Pandit (Arm)

Christian Daudt (Cypress)

Dan Handley (Arm)

David Brown (Linaro)

Kevin Townsend (Linaro)

Joakim Bech (Linaro)

Eric Finco (ST)

Mark Grosen (TI)

Bill Mills (TI)

Bill Fletcher (Linaro Community Projects)


Agenda


CNA training

Provisioning

ELC TF-M workshop in Lyon

Git process flow

OP-TEE git update

Notes


DB: CNA training? CVE Numbering Authorities. Able to assign CVEs in blocks of 10 without going through a minder. No charge. Same amount of time as we should be spending on CVEs anyway.

JB/DH: Think it’s a good idea.

DH: Would like to establish who is on the security mailing lists.

JB: Have had bad experience working through Mitre.

CD: To clarify this the scope is TF-A, TF-M, OP-TEE

DB: Yes.

CD: Not much purpose to get CVEs if we don’t have anyone to do anything on them.

DB: CF Zephyr …

DH: Will send email to allow people to formally sign off on this


DB: I would like to have a discussion about provisioning. Right now, it seems that the only way we specify a device identifying itself is by giving its public key, which would require that every device to be provisioned be entered into some kind of database before it could be known. Instead I'd like to propose that we have a way of storing and retrieving an X.509 certificate, which would have that public key in it, along with a signature chain that could be used to indicate that this device is trusted. This is commonly done in deployed devices, and we might as well add this functionality now.

AP: Had proposed a provisioning-specific slot, but no one registered interest. Will still schedule this.

DB: Have defined attestation token signed with a private key internal to device. There is also a public key. If only this, it has to be known by the entity on the other side to know a valid device. Preferred approach is a certificate - that public key signed by an authority.

https://github.com/microbuilder/zephyr/blob/tfm-psa-level-1/samples/tfm_integration/psa_level_1/docs/attestation.md#example-verification-workflow

Need to “get a certificate” … is this a trusted device?

DB: Different to e.g. MQTT using a TLS certificate. Need to be flexible allowing a public key registration.

KT: How to know if a device should be joining the network with just public key. 

DB: Unless a channel from the factory with a list of trusted devices.

DB: May also need a mechanism to update these keys

BM: Overlap with Intel?

JB: Yes. Pelion was the collaboration between Intel and Arm

BM: Think the base concept was simpler. 

JB: Talk to Reed Hinkel about the LEDGE presentation session on this.  

EF: Got it through the mailing list of LEDGE. 

AP: Would like to do this as a provisioning subgroup and then ask the TSC if they want to proceed. Happy for David or Kevin to lead the discussion. 

CD: Shall we see if can have a similar discussion to the one we had at Connect

JB: Can ask Francois or Reed to see if they can help us. 

AP: If you know someone who is interested, we should extend to wider than TSC. Will schedule the meeting.

MG: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/idz/iot/briefs/sdo-product-brief.pdf


AP: TF-M workshop in Lyon after ELC. Will discuss the outcomes at next TSC. 


MG: Git flow. How to know when it’s a good time to integrate with the TF-M workflow. Aren’t many tags etc. Have tried with some issues. Are there engineering builds, alpha builds?

AP: Can take guidance as TF-A which is more mature. Need to decide if 6 monthly test cycle as TF-A. Need solid branches to base work on. Dual core work ongoing on a branch. Posted requests for review but there were no reviews. Has been no drive to fix the methodology yet.

AP: CI running but it’s problematic with MPS2 at the moment.

CD: But no formal cycles yet

AP: Arm stretched to support the feature requests at the moment. Will talk to Shebu to structure the roadmap in order to have something stable. 


JB: Forked OP-TEE gits are now at git.trustedfirmware.org



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