System and method for permitting end user to decide what algorithm should be used to archive secure applications

摘要

An end user or IT owner via the use of an application specifies which TPM is to be loaded or which TPM operation is to be invoked given the authenticated presentation of a biometric such as a fingerprint or a token such as a smart card. A secure table stored in the microcontroller made up of TPM hashes and their corresponding endorsement keys is indexed to these authentication records. The microcontroller compares a received biometric or smart card value to the stored values to determine which TPM emulator to load. This architecture uniquely stores individually secured algorithms, and applications that can be bound to the user and the system on which they are running.