keylime VS swtpm

Compare keylime vs swtpm and see what are their differences.

keylime

A CNCF Project to Bootstrap & Maintain Trust on the Edge / Cloud and IoT (by keylime)

swtpm

Libtpms-based TPM emulator with socket, character device, and Linux CUSE interface. (by stefanberger)
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keylime swtpm
2 14
375 526
1.3% -
9.0 7.7
8 days ago 9 days ago
Python C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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keylime

Posts with mentions or reviews of keylime. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-25.
  • The Danger of Microsoft Pluton
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jul 2022
    It is still under development, but try Keylime[1]. They have also a nice agent written in Rust[2] with low footprint.

    I write some notes[3] about how to use it in openSUSE MicroOS / Tumbleweed, but can be extrapolated to many other distributions too.

    [1] https://github.com/keylime/keylime

  • Will Proxmox be able to run Windows 11?
    3 projects | /r/Proxmox | 27 Jun 2021
    It looks like qemu 6.0 has tpm 2.0 as a milestone feature: https://github.com/keylime/keylime/issues/29

swtpm

Posts with mentions or reviews of swtpm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing keylime and swtpm you can also consider the following projects:

confidential-computing-zoo - Confidential Computing Zoo provides confidential computing solutions based on Intel SGX, TDX, HEXL, etc. technologies.

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

xcp - Entry point for issues and wiki. Also contains some scripts and sources.

tpm-emulator - The famous tpm-emulator by Mario Strasser, previously hosted on BerliOs. It supports TPM1.2 only!

cloud-lusat - Cloud Internal Threat Intelligence Feeds, Inventory and Compliance Data Collection

tpm2-tools - The source repository for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM2.0) tools

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

28c3-doctorow - Transcription of Cory Doctorow's keynote from 28C3.

libtpms - The libtpms library provides software emulation of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0)

Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.

CloverBootloader - Bootloader for macOS, Windows and Linux in UEFI and in legacy mode