What is integrity management and what is it relationship to trusted platforms?
The TCG uses the term “integrity management” to mean the broad aspects around the measuring, reporting and verifying of the state of a given computer system, including the infrastructure support (e.g. architectures, protocols, data formats, etc) to accomplish these tasks. There are numerous aspects of a trusted platform that can be subject to measurements and quantification. These include the register values inside the TPM hardware, files on the system, in-memory images and others. Which aspect of a trusted platform to be measured is largely dependent on the use case of the measurement (e.g. verified boot, network access control, etc).
