Provisioning: getting the TPM ready to use
Provisioning generally has two goals: setting up the necessary initial configuration and establishing trust in the TPM. TPMs today do not come ready to use. Every TPM, whatever the version, needs to have some initial values provisioned before the TPM can generate and use keys; without keys, none of the TPM's features work. What the initial values are varies from version to version. Provisioning can in some cases also determine who has permission to use certain TPM functionality.
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