pemtpm

pemtpm is an utility based on ibmtpm20tss-tss that extracts from the private key in PEM format the arguments:

• objectPublic (TPM2B_PUBLIC)
• duplicate (TPM2B_PRIVATE)

Why would I need this utility?

These arguments are needed by the TPM2_Import command. If you want to import keys generated by OpenSSL on your TPM, you would need to run the importpem utility from the ibmtpm20tss toolset. In some environments, importpem would not be able to execute because of its size (due to the openssl dependency). Therefore, this utility retrives the correct arguments to TPM2_Import from the private key removing the hassle to include ibmtpm20tss in constrained environments.

How to use it?

Generate a RSA private key with OpenSSL in PEM format:

openssl genrsa -out private.pem 2048

Use pemtpm to get the objectPublic and duplicate arguments:

./pemtpm -ipem private.pem -opu opu.bin -opr opr.bin