Which TPM is this? All the ones I know of are EEPROM based and require no power.
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Replying to @Serianox_ @pawel_lasek and
There is no mention of battery backup anywhere in the datasheet for SLB9635TT1.2 (typical Infineon TPM). The only mention of batteries in the TPM 1.2 specification is about timestamping/clock, and it's optional.
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Replying to @Serianox_ @pawel_lasek and
You need a battery to do *anything* when powered off. Without a battery chassis intrusion detection is useless as a defense against hardware modification attacks like the one I described.
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Replying to @marcan42 @Serianox_ and
So what a cmos battery to save the bios settings or do u mean now battery to reset the settings?
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Replying to @connorfgws @Serianox_ and
Look, this isn't rocket science. A computer without a battery cannot possibly detect that you've opened the case while powered off (and do something about it like destroy encryption keys).
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Replying to @marcan42 @Serianox_ and
Unless there's a big enough capacitor in a chip to destroy internal encryption key, or drain a static nvram hosting it, etc. All possible to circumvent, but you don't need battery - you need some source of current (or in certain conditions, a drain)
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Replying to @pawel_lasek @marcan42 and
Now, whether the chips involved actually do any of that is another question completely
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A capacitor would not work in practice because it would mean you lose your keys if you keep the computer powered off for too long (when it runs out of charge). Even a battery is dodgy in that sense.
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Replying to @marcan42 @Serianox_ and
Interestingly enough it's an approach used by FlexVer (in TALOS2), where very, very low power sustains FPGA which deconfigures once it runs out
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