% tpm2_send(1) tpm2-tools | General Commands Manual

NAME

tpm2_send(1) - Send a raw command buffer to the TPM.

SYNOPSIS

tpm2_send [OPTIONS] [STDIN]

DESCRIPTION

tpm2_send(1) - Sends a TPM command to the TPM. The command is read from a file as a binary stream and transmitted to the TPM using the TCTI specified by the caller. The response received from the TPM is written to the output file.

Likely the caller will want to redirect this to a file or into a program to decode and display the response in a human readable form.

OPTIONS

  • -o, --output=FILE:

    Output file to send response buffer to. Defaults to STDOUT.

  • _STDIN the file containing the TPM2 command.

References

common options collection of common options that provide information many users may expect.

common tcti options collection of options used to configure the various known TCTI modules.

EXAMPLES

Send and receive raw commands to TPM

Send the contents of tpm2-command.bin to a device and collect the response as tpm2-response.bin.

tpm2_send < tpm2-command.bin > tpm2-response.bin

tpm2_send < tpm2-command.bin -o tpm2-response.bin

returns

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