TrustedGRUB2 VS tpm2-tools

Compare TrustedGRUB2 vs tpm2-tools and see what are their differences.

TrustedGRUB2

DEPRECATED TPM enabled GRUB2 Bootloader (by Rohde-Schwarz)

tpm2-tools

The source repository for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM2.0) tools (by tpm2-software)
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TrustedGRUB2 tpm2-tools
4 1
191 666
0.0% 0.9%
1.8 8.2
over 2 years ago 4 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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TrustedGRUB2

Posts with mentions or reviews of TrustedGRUB2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-01.
  • Encryption in archinstall?
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 1 Apr 2022
    Last time I checked, yes. There's been a few projects like TrustedGRUB2 *(which luks-tpm-boot uses) that was intended to make this work on GRUB. But in all fairness, GRUB is pretty dead to me personally as it's a lot of workarounds depending on what hardware you're working with. The only reason really we support GRUB is because it works on older hardware and on more edge cases (like USB drives etc). But if I could choose, I'd make it so everyone used EFI and we could use systemd-boot everywhere ^
  • Trusted boot option missing from tumbleweed install?
    1 project | /r/openSUSE | 20 Mar 2022
    AFAIK trusted boot is in limbo, the upstream project is no longer maintained and it was never very clear exactly how it should be exposed to users anyway. So yeah it has been removed from TW.
  • Question regarding secure boot and trusted boot and TPM activation for passphrase
    1 project | /r/openSUSE | 19 Sep 2021
    Trusted Boot in yast2 switches the bootloader to TrustedGrub2 instead of normal Grub2. It does work on both legacy bios and EFI. This adds several verification steps to the boot process but be aware the support is somewhat piecemeal. I am not an expert on the details.
  • Linux-native TPM-backed Bitlocker
    5 projects | /r/linux | 3 Jan 2021
    What do you think about https://github.com/Rohde-Schwarz/TrustedGRUB2

tpm2-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of tpm2-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-23.
  • AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A – How AWS Signs and Verifies API Requests
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021
    If you are looking for some references besides my linked code, this comment[0] on the tpm2-tools repo will probably be useful. FWIW, I've moved my workflow over to having long lived aws keys protected by my TPM and then I generate session credentials from that for normal aws cli usage.

    [0]: https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tools/issues/1597

What are some alternatives?

When comparing TrustedGRUB2 and tpm2-tools you can also consider the following projects:

clevis - Automated Encryption Framework

swtpm - Libtpms-based TPM emulator with socket, character device, and Linux CUSE interface.

mortar - Framework to join Linux's physical security bricks.

tpm2-tss - OSS implementation of the TCG TPM2 Software Stack (TSS2)

safeboot - Scripts to slightly improve the security of the Linux boot process with UEFI Secure Boot and TPM support

aws-vault - A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments

linux-secureboot-kit - Tool for complete hardening of Linux boot chain with UEFI Secure Boot

OpenVPN - OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

tpm2.0-tools - The source repository for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM2.0) tools [Moved to: https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tools]

idevicerestore - Restore/upgrade firmware of iOS devices

linux-luks-tpm-boot - A guide for setting up LUKS boot with a key from TPM in Linux