> We are looking to no longer support TPM1.2 in RHEL9. Than raised the
> question with regards to opencryptoki-tpmtok if it should be changed in
> Fedora as well, so I thought I'd see what everyone thinks about future
> TPM1.2 support in Fedora. I know at one point in the last year or so
> trousers almost dropped from Fedora due to being orphaned for quite a
> while. From what I could find the following packages have dependencies:
>
> ecryptfs-utils  - --disable-tspi
> openconnect - looks like it will only build support if trousers-devel is
>               there, and makes use of tpm2-tss as well.
> strongswan  - --enable-tss-tss2 instead of --enable-tss-trousers?
> tboot       - the trousers dependency was just in a policy tool that has now
>               been deprecated upstream.
> opencryptoki-tpmtok - --disable-tpmtok
>
> tpm-quote-tools, tpm-tools, and trousers are all tpm1.2 specific
> packages.
>
> Another thing is that in the kernel there currently is no way to build
> with just tpm1.2 or tpm2.0 support so the kernel support for tpm1.2
> would still be there.
>
> I don't think Fedora needs to drop the tpm1.2 support if people want to
> continue supporting it, but wanted to put the question out there and see
> how everyone felt.

I think it should be dropped, tpm2 has been shipped in hardware for 5+
years and tpm1 has security issues, so I think the time is now to drop
it. Please do a Fedora Change proposal to ensure it's communicated
properly.

Peter
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