Installer gotpm avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• gotpm

Historique du projet

go-tpm-tools dates to Google's 2018 TPM 2.0 work and explicitly narrows its scope to TPM 2.0 rather than TPM 1.2. The README frames the library as a complement to Go-TPM: Go-TPM supplies lower-level TPM access, while go-tpm-tools adds simplified APIs and workflows around attestation, signing, import, event logs, and server-side verification. gotpm is exposed from the same repository as the user-facing CLI for exercising TPM operations without writing Go code.

Historique d'adoption

The package-manager footprint is modest compared with broader security scanners, but the Homebrew formula and the repository's documented `go install github.com/google/go-tpm-tools/cmd/gotpm@latest` path made gotpm available to developers who wanted a Go-native TPM utility. Adoption is tied to hardware-backed security, confidential-computing, and attestation users rather than general-purpose shell workflows.

Modes d'utilisation

gotpm is installed either with `go install` from the repository or by building the `cmd/gotpm` directory from a clone. The README directs users to `gotpm --help` and per-command help, while the surrounding packages document TPM 2.0 operations such as signing, attestation, PCR reads, sealing and unsealing, NV data reads, and TCG event-log handling.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package maintainers, gotpm is a small but useful example of a hardware-facing Go CLI where distribution quality depends on CGO/OpenSSL simulator edges, Go toolchain support, and whether the host actually has TPM 2.0 access. It also sits in the package ecosystem around google/go-tpm, which matters for people tracking Go security tooling and reproducible attestation utilities.

Chronologie

• 2018: Google copyright and repository metadata place go-tpm-tools in Google's TPM 2.0 support work.
• 2020: v0.2.1 release notes described signer improvements.
• 2021: v0.3.0 release notes emphasized attestation generation and verification.
• 2021: v0.3.0 prereleases previewed the larger attestation-oriented update series.

Related projects

• google/go-tpm provides the lower-level TPM library that go-tpm-tools complements.
• Microsoft's TPM 2.0 simulator is used through the go-tpm-tools simulator bindings.
• Trusted Computing Group TPM 2.0 specifications define the hardware/security domain that the tool targets.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/google/go-tpm-tools
• https://github.com/google/go-tpm-tools/releases
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/go-tpm-tools/master/README.md