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Security Remote ATtestation ProcedureS attestation device assignment EAT In confidential computing, device assignment (DA) is the method by which a device (e.g., network adapter, GPU), whether on-chip or behind a PCIe Root Port, is assigned to a Trusted Virtual Machine (TVM). For the TVM to trust an assigned device, the device must provide the TVM with attestation Evidence confirming its identity and the state of its firmware and configuration. Since Evidence claims can be processed by 3rd party entities (e.g., Verifiers, Relying Parties) external to the TVM, there is a need to standardize the representation of DA-related information in Evidence to ensure interoperability. This document defines an attestation Evidence format for DA as an EAT (Entity Attestation Token) profile. About This Document The latest revision of this draft can be found at . Status information for this document may be found at . Discussion of this document takes place on the Remote ATtestation ProcedureS Working Group mailing list (), which is archived at . Subscribe at . Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at .

Introduction In confidential computing, device assignment (DA) is the method by which a device (e.g., network adapter, GPU), whether on-chip or behind a PCIe Root Port, is assigned to a Trusted Virtual Machine (TVM). Most confidential computing platforms (e.g., Arm CCA, AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX) provide DA capabilities. Such capabilities prevent execution environments or software components that are untrusted by the TVM (including other TVMs and the host hypervisor) from accessing or controlling a device that has been assigned to the TVM. This includes, for example, protection of device MMIO interfaces and device caches. From a trust perspective, DA allows a device to be included in the TVM's Trusted Computing Base (TCB). For the TVM to trust the device, the device must provide the TVM with attestation Evidence confirming its identity and the state of its firmware and configuration. This document defines an attestation Evidence format for DA as an EAT profile. The format is designed to be generic, extensible and architecture-agnostic. Ongoing work on DA concentrates on PCIe devices that support the SPDM protocol , but other bus architectures and protocols are expected to be supported as the technology gains wider adoption. As such, this document focuses on the formalization of an Evidence format for SPDM-compliant devices while leaving room for the definition of other Evidence formats such as Compute Express Link (CXL) and the Coherent Hub Interface (CHI). This list is by no means exhaustive and is expected to expand.

Conventions and Definitions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

Device Assignment Token (DAT) Claims The Device Assignment Token (DAT) is the encompassing envelope for the individual device claims to be presented. A DAT can be used as a standalone entity but can also be embedded in a larger, platform-specific attestation token. A DAT consists of an EAT profile identifier, a nonce and an EAT submodule () that contains any number of individual device claims. Each individual device claim is the combination of a device name and a standard claims format based on the bus or protocol the device supports. The syntax of the device name depends on the type of bus or protocol used. Each name consists of two parts joined by a semicolon: a namespace and a bus-specific name. See for SPDM devices, and for legacy PCIe devices. As previously mentioned, this draft currently defines the claims set for SPDM compliant devices and PCIe legacy devices that do not support the SPDM protocol. Careful condideration was also given to the overall design in order to leave room for future expansion. "tag:linaro.org,2025:device#1.0.0" &(eat_nonce: 10) => bytes .size 64 ; same as realm nonce &(eat_submods: 266) => { + device-name => $device-claims-set } } device-name = text .regexp "(legacy-pcie|spdm):.+" $device-claims-set /= spdm-claims $device-claims-set /= cxl-claims $device-claims-set /= chi-claims $device-claims-set /= pcie-legacy-claims ]]>

SPDM Claims A SPDM claim instance is expected to be present for each SPDM compatible device to be attested. Each instance consists of either a measurements section or a certificates section, or both. Optionally, the Negotiated State preamble (version, capabilities and algorithms) bytes can be included to present the full negotiated state between the SPDM requester and responder. "tag:linaro.org,2025:device-spdm#1.0.0" spdm-artefacts ? &(vca: 3804) => bytes } spdm-artefacts //= ( &(measurements: 3802) => spdm-measurements &(certificates: 3803) => spdm-certificates ) spdm-artefacts //= ( &(measurements: 3802) => spdm-measurements ) spdm-artefacts //= ( &(certificates: 3803) => spdm-certificates ) ]]>

Measurements Claim There can be up to 239 measurements per device with the entire measurement log optionally signed by the certificate populated in one of the 8 certificate slots. It should be noted that measurements formalized herein follow the DMTF measurement specification. spdm-measurement ? "signature" => spdm-measurement-blocks-signature } block-id = 1..239 ]]>

Measurement SPDM measurements start with a component type that reflects one of the 10 categories defined by the SPDM specification. Following is the measurement itself represented by either a raw bitstream or a digest. The size of the digest value is derived from the measurement hash algorithm conveyed by the SPDM ALGORITHMS message response. component-type measurement } measurement //= ( &(digest-measurement: 2) => digest-measurement ) measurement //= ( &(raw-measurement: 3) => raw-measurement ) component-type /= &(immutable-rom: 0) component-type /= &(mutable-firmware: 1) component-type /= &(hardware-config: 2) component-type /= &(firmware-config: 3) component-type /= &(freeform-measurement-manifest: 4) component-type /= &(device-mode: 5) component-type /= &(mutable-firmware-version: 6) component-type /= &(mutable-firmware-svn: 7) component-type /= &(hash-extend-measurement: 8) component-type /= &(informational: 9) component-type /= &(structured-measurement-manifest: 10) raw-measurement = bytes digest-measurement = digest digest = [ alg: uint / text val: bytes ] ]]>

Measurements Signature SPDM compliant devices can optionally support the capability to sign measurements. Included in the measurement claim signature are all the elements needed by a third party entity to reconstruct the original measurement log signed by the device. Those elements include L1 (see CDDL below), the combined SPDM prefix, the hash algorithm used to generate a digest of the measurement log and nonces provided by the requester and responder. The slot number of the leaf certificate used to sign the measurement log is also provided. 0..7, ; Slot of the certificate chain used to ; authenticate the measurement. Default ; should be 0. &(requester-nonce: 2) => bytes .size 32, &(responder-nonce: 3) => bytes .size 32, &(combined-spdm-prefix: 4) => bytes .size 100, &(IL1: 5) => bytes, ; L1 (see comment above) &(base-hash-algo: 6) => hash-algorithm-type, &(signature: 7) => bytes } ]]>

Certificate Claims According to the specification, SPDM compliant devices should support at most 8 slots, with slot 0 populated by default. Slot 0 SHALL contain a certificate chain that follows the Device certificate model or the Alias certificate model. Regardless of the certificate model used, a certificate chain comprises one or more DER-encoded X.509 v3 certificates . The certificates MUST be concatenated with no intermediate padding. cert-chain ? aux-cert-slots => cert-chain } ; ASN.1 DER-encoded certificates concatenated with no intermediate ; padding. cert-chain = bytes default-cert-slot = 0 aux-cert-slots = 1..7 ]]>

Negotiated State Preamble (Version, Capabilities and Algorithms) The Negotiated State Preamble (i.e., vca) claim contains the concatenation of messages GET_VERSION, VERSION, GET_CAPABILITIES, CAPABILITIES, NEGOTIATE_ALGORITHMS, and ALGORITHMS last exchanged between the SPDM Requester and Responder.

Submodule Naming The namespace used for SPDM submodules is "spdm". The name associated with an SPDM submodule is extracted from the leaf certificate of the relevant device.

• If the leaf certificate contains a Subject Alternative Name of type DMTFOtherName, the submodule name is the value contained in ub-DMTF-device-info. For example: "spdm:ACME:WIDGET:0123456789".
• Otherwise, the submod name is the string representation of the certificate Subject, as described in . For example: "spdm:C=CA,O=ACME,OU=Widget,CN=0123456789".

PCIe Legacy Device Claims The definition of a device claims set for PCIe legacy devices that do not implement the extensions needed to attest for their provenance and configuration is provided, making it is possible to keep using current assets as secures ones are being provisioned. This legacy device claims set simply mirrors the type 0/1 common registers of the PCIe configuration space, mandating only that the vendor and device identification code be provided. Other fields of the configuration space header may optionally be included should they add value. A binary format of the PCIe configuration space is made available for processing by existing PCIe configuration space tools. Implementers may optionally choose to include both text and binary versions should there be a use case to support this representation. "tag:linaro.org,2025:device-pcie-legacy#1.0\ .0" pcie-legacy-artefacts ? $$pcie-legacy-claim-extension } pcie-legacy-artefacts //= ( &(artefacts-text: 3805) => pcie-type-0-1-config-space-text &(artefacts-bytes: 3806) => pcie-type-0-1-config-space-bytes ) pcie-legacy-artefacts //= ( &(artefacts-text: 3805) => pcie-type-0-1-config-space-text ) pcie-legacy-artefacts //= ( &(artefacts-bytes: 3806) => pcie-type-0-1-config-space-bytes ) pcie-type-0-1-config-space-bytes = bytes .size 256 pcie-type-0-1-config-space-text = { &(vendorID: 1) => bytes .size 2 &(deviceID: 2) => bytes .size 2 ? &(command: 3) => bytes .size 2 ? &(status: 4) => bytes .size 2 ? &(revisionID: 5) => bytes .size 1 ? &(classCode: 6) => bytes .size 3 ? &(cacheLineSize: 7) => bytes .size 1 ? &(latencyTimer: 8) => bytes .size 1 ? &(headerType: 9) => bytes .size 1 ? &(BITS: 10) => bytes .size 1 } ]]>

Submodule Naming The namespace used for legacy PCIe submodules is "legacy-pcie". The name is any arbitrary string chosen by the implementation. For example, "legacy-pcie:0000:01:02.0" where "0000" is the domain, "01" the PCI bus id, "02" the device on the bus and "0" the device function.

Collated CDDL "tag:linaro.org,2025:device#1.0.0", &(eat_nonce: 10) => bytes .size 64, &(eat_submods: 266) => {+ device-name => $device-claims-set}, } device-name = text .regexp "(legacy-pcie|spdm):.+" $device-claims-set /= spdm-claims / cxl-claims / chi-claims / pcie-\ legacy-claims spdm-claims = { &(eat_profile: 265) => "tag:linaro.org,2025:device-spdm#1.0.0", spdm-artefacts, ? &(vca: 3804) => bytes, } spdm-artefacts //= (( &(measurements: 3802) => spdm-measurements, &(certificates: 3803) => spdm-certificates, ) // &(measurements: 3802) => spdm-measurements // &(\ certificates: 3803) => spdm-certificates) spdm-measurement = { &(component-type: 1) => component-type, measurement, } measurement //= (&(digest-measurement: 2) => digest-measurement // &\ (raw-measurement: 3) => raw-measurement) component-type /= &(immutable-rom: 0) / &(mutable-firmware: 1) / &(\ hardware-config: 2) / &(firmware-config: 3) / &(freeform-measurement\ -manifest: 4) / &(device-mode: 5) / &(mutable-firmware-version: 6) \ / &(mutable-firmware-svn: 7) / &(hash-extend-measurement: 8) / &(\ informational: 9) / &(structured-measurement-manifest: 10) raw-measurement = bytes digest-measurement = digest digest = [ alg: uint / text, val: bytes, ] spdm-certificates = { default-cert-slot => cert-chain, ? aux-cert-slots => cert-chain, } cert-chain = bytes default-cert-slot = 0 aux-cert-slots = 1 .. 7 spdm-measurements = { + block-id => spdm-measurement, ? "signature" => spdm-measurement-blocks-signature, } block-id = 1 .. 239 hash-algorithm-type /= &(tpm_alg_sha_256: 0) / &(tpm_alg_sha_384: 2\ ) / &(tpm_alg_sha_512: 4) / &(tpm_alg_sha3_256: 8) / &(\ tpm_alg_sha3_384: 16) / &(tpm_alg_sha3_512: 32) / &(tpm_alg_sm3_256\ : 64) spdm-measurement-blocks-signature = { &(slot: 1) => 0 .. 7, &(requester-nonce: 2) => bytes .size 32, &(responder-nonce: 3) => bytes .size 32, &(combined-spdm-prefix: 4) => bytes .size 100, &(IL1: 5) => bytes, &(base-hash-algo: 6) => hash-algorithm-type, &(signature: 7) => bytes, } cxl-claims = {&(eat_profile: 265) => "tag:linaro.org,2025:device-cxl\ #1.0.0"} chi-claims = {&(eat_profile: 265) => "tag:linaro.org,2025:device-chi\ #1.0.0"} pcie-legacy-claims = { &(eat_profile: 265) => "tag:linaro.org,2025:device-pcie-legacy#1.0\ .0", pcie-legacy-artefacts, ? $$pcie-legacy-claim-extension, } pcie-legacy-artefacts //= (( &(artefacts-text: 3805) => pcie-type-0-1-config-space-text, &(artefacts-bytes: 3806) => pcie-type-0-1-config-space-bytes, ) // &(artefacts-text: 3805) => pcie-type-0-1-config-space-\ text // &(artefacts-bytes: 3806) => pcie-type-0-1-config-space-bytes) pcie-type-0-1-config-space-bytes = bytes .size 256 pcie-type-0-1-config-space-text = { &(vendorID: 1) => bytes .size 2, &(deviceID: 2) => bytes .size 2, ? &(command: 3) => bytes .size 2, ? &(status: 4) => bytes .size 2, ? &(revisionID: 5) => bytes .size 1, ? &(classCode: 6) => bytes .size 3, ? &(cacheLineSize: 7) => bytes .size 1, ? &(latencyTimer: 8) => bytes .size 1, ? &(headerType: 9) => bytes .size 1, ? &(BITS: 10) => bytes .size 1, } ]]>

Security Considerations TODO Security

IANA Considerations

New CWT Claims Registrations IANA is requested to register the following claims in the "CBOR Web Token (CWT) Claims" registry .

 SPDM Measurements Claim

• Claim Name: spdm-measurements
• Claim Description: SPDM Measurements
• JWT Claim Name: N/A
• Claim Key: 3802
• Claim Value Type(s): map
• Change Controller: IETF
• Specification Document(s): of RFCthis

 SPDM Certificates Claim

• Claim Name: spdm-certificates
• Claim Description: SPDM Certificates
• JWT Claim Name: N/A
• Claim Key: 3803
• Claim Value Type(s): map
• Change Controller: IETF
• Specification Document(s): of RFCthis

 SPDM VCA Claim

• Claim Name: spdm-vca
• Claim Description: SPDM Version, Capabilities and Algorithms
• JWT Claim Name: N/A
• Claim Key: 3804
• Claim Value Type(s): bytes
• Change Controller: IETF
• Specification Document(s): of RFCthis

 PCIe Legacy Device Text Claim

• Claim Name: pcie-legacy-device-text
• Claim Description: PCIe Legacy Device Textual Representation
• JWT Claim Name: N/A
• Claim Key: 3805
• Claim Value Type(s): map
• Change Controller: IETF
• Specification Document(s): of RFCthis

 PCIe Legacy Device Binary Claim

• Claim Name: pcie-legacy-device-binary
• Claim Description: PCIe Legacy Device Binary Representation
• JWT Claim Name: N/A
• Claim Key: 3806
• Claim Value Type(s): bytes
• Change Controller: IETF
• Specification Document(s): of RFCthis

References Normative References An Entity Attestation Token (EAT) provides an attested claims set that describes the state and characteristics of an entity, a device such as a smartphone, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, network equipment, or such. This claims set is used by a relying party, server, or service to determine the type and degree of trust placed in the entity. An EAT is either a CBOR Web Token (CWT) or a JSON Web Token (JWT) with attestation-oriented claims. This memo profiles the X.509 v3 certificate and X.509 v2 certificate revocation list (CRL) for use in the Internet. An overview of this approach and model is provided as an introduction. The X.509 v3 certificate format is described in detail, with additional information regarding the format and semantics of Internet name forms. Standard certificate extensions are described and two Internet-specific extensions are defined. A set of required certificate extensions is specified. The X.509 v2 CRL format is described in detail along with standard and Internet-specific extensions. An algorithm for X.509 certification path validation is described. An ASN.1 module and examples are provided in the appendices. [STANDARDS-TRACK] The X.500 Directory uses distinguished names (DNs) as primary keys to entries in the directory. This document defines the string representation used in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to transfer distinguished names. The string representation is designed to give a clean representation of commonly used distinguished names, while being able to represent any distinguished name. [STANDARDS-TRACK] IANA In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification. These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol specifications. This document aims to reduce the ambiguity by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings. Informative References DMTF

Examples

Acknowledgments Thank you Basma El Gaabouri, Henk Birkholz, James Bottomley, Lukas Wunner, Simon Frost and Yousuf Sait for your comments and suggestions.