Firmware tpm

Owned by Avi Deitcher
Dec 14, 2022
1 min read

Intel and AMD each offers a tpm integrated into some of their CPUs, called "firmware TPM" or "fTPM". Rather than a separate tpm device, which requires installation on the board and may be expensive, fTPM is implemented directly in the CPU and is exposed via the firmware.

  • Intel offers the fTPM as Platform Trust Technology (PTT), generally available on 8th-generation or newer Core CPUs. It is compliant with TPM 2.0 specifications.

  • AMD offers fTPM on most of the Ryzen, Athlon and EPYC CPUs

From the user's perspective, an fTPM, once enabled in BIOS, looks exactly like a tpm 2.0, presenting the usual devices of /dev/tpmrm0 and /dev/tpm0.