... measurements) ¹

This is used in another TPM mechanism allowing to seal a secret to a platform configuration, though originally this did not include any dynamic measurements.

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... lifetimes ²

The TPM specification [11] demands that the externally accessible counters must allow for 7 years of increments every 5 seconds without causing a hardware failure.

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... kernel ³

The mechanisms presented here are sufficiently generic that porting to a Unix-like system should be straightforward.

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