TCTILDR(7)

💖 NAME 💖

tss2-tctildr — bestie, this is the lil library that simplifies management of TCTI instance lifecycle ✨ no cap, it just makes the whole thing so much less of a headache.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

This library simplifies the instantiation and finalization of TCTI instances. that's it. that's the vibe. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so, real talk: the TCTI dynamic loading and initialization protocol requires a LOT of boilerplate code. like, an unreasonable amount. it's giving "why am i typing all of this again" energy 😭

to reduce duplication, the tss2-tctildr library adds the Tss2_TctiLdr_Initialize(), Tss2_TctiLdr_Initialize_Ex(), and Tss2_TctiLdr_Finalize() functions, which abstract away all the machinery required to load, initialize, and finalize a TCTI context. like yes, queen, handle it for me 💅

to assist in the discovery of TCTIs, this library provides the Tss2_TctiLdr_GetInfo() function. this function — paired with a ‘free’ function to free the memory allocated by ‘GetInfo’ — provides a simple query interface for discovery of the available and default TCTIs available to the tss2-tctildr implementation 🔍✨

the interface exposed by this library is defined in the “TSS System Level API and TPM Command Transmission Interface Specification”. iykyk 📜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

TPM2 Software Project <https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tss> — they ate, fr fr 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Tss2_Tcti_Device_Init(3)
• Tss2_Tcti_Socket_Init(3)
• Tss2_TctiLdr_Initialize(3)
• Tss2_TctiLdr_Finalize(3)
• tcti-device(7)
• tcti-socket(7)
• tcti-tabrmd(7)
• tpm2-abrmd(8)

go read those too, bestie, they're part of the lore 💖

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🎀 COLOPHON 🎀

this page is part of release 4.2.0 of Open Source implementation of the TCG TPM2 Software Stack (TSS2). a description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page can be found at <https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tss/>. ⭐

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💜 LICENSE 💜

this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). for more information visit <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> 🌸

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🥰 this lil manual came from the TPM2 Software Stack, version dated JULY 2019, page TCTILDR(7) — iconic, periodt 💅✨