sev-snp-measure 0.0.4

Calculate expected measurement of an AMD SEV-SNP guest VM for confidential computing

sev-snp-measure

Scope

Command-line tool and Python library to calculate expected measurement of an AMD SEV/SEV-ES/SEV-SNP guest VM for confidential computing.

Installation

From pip

Install from pip:

pip install sev-snp-measure

This installs the sevsnpmeasure package and the sev-snp-measure command-line script.

From Github

Clone the Github repo and run the script directly from the local directory:

git clone https://github.com/IBM/sev-snp-measure.git
cd sev-snp-measure
./sev-snp-measure.py --help

Command-line usage

sev-snp-measure

$ sev-snp-measure --help
usage: sev-snp-measure [-h] [--version] [-v] --mode {sev,seves,snp,snp:ovmf-hash} [--vcpus N]
                       [--vcpu-type CPUTYPE] [--vcpu-sig VALUE] [--vcpu-family FAMILY]
                       [--vcpu-model MODEL] [--vcpu-stepping STEPPING] --ovmf PATH [--kernel PATH]
                       [--initrd PATH] [--append CMDLINE] [--output-format {hex,base64}]
                       [--snp-ovmf-hash HASH]

Calculate AMD SEV/SEV-ES/SEV-SNP guest launch measurement

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose
  --mode {sev,seves,snp,snp:ovmf-hash}
                        Guest mode
  --vcpus N             Number of guest vcpus
  --vcpu-type CPUTYPE   Type of guest vcpu (EPYC, EPYC-v1, EPYC-v2, EPYC-IBPB, EPYC-v3, EPYC-v4,
                        EPYC-Rome, EPYC-Rome-v1, EPYC-Rome-v2, EPYC-Rome-v3, EPYC-Milan, EPYC-
                        Milan-v1, EPYC-Milan-v2)
  --vcpu-sig VALUE      Guest vcpu signature value
  --vcpu-family FAMILY  Guest vcpu family
  --vcpu-model MODEL    Guest vcpu model
  --vcpu-stepping STEPPING
                        Guest vcpu stepping
  --ovmf PATH           OVMF file to calculate hash from
  --kernel PATH         Kernel file to calculate hash from
  --initrd PATH         Initrd file to calculate hash from (use with --kernel)
  --append CMDLINE      Kernel command line to calculate hash from (use with --kernel)
  --output-format {hex,base64}
                        Measurement output format
  --snp-ovmf-hash HASH  Precalculated hash of the OVMF binary (hex string)

For example:

$ sev-snp-measure --mode snp --vcpus=1 --vcpu-type=EPYC-v4 --ovmf=OVMF.fd --kernel=vmlinuz --initrd=initrd.img --append="console=ttyS0 loglevel=7"
1c8bf2f320add50cb22ca824c17f3fa51a7a4296a4a3113698c2e31b50c2dcfa7e36dea3ebc3a9411061c30acffc6d5a

snp-create-id-block

$ snp-create-id-block --help
usage: snp-create-id-block [-h] [--measurement VALUE] [--idkey PATH] [--authorkey PATH]

Calculate AMD SEV-SNP guest id block

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --measurement VALUE  Guest launch measurement in Base64 encoding
  --idkey PATH         id private key file
  --authorkey PATH     author private key file

Programmatic usage

After installing the sev-snp-measure package with pip, you can call it from another Python application:

from sevsnpmeasure import guest,id_block
from sevsnpmeasure import vcpu_types
from sevsnpmeasure.sev_mode import SevMode

ld = guest.calc_launch_digest(SevMode.SEV_SNP, vcpus_num, vcpu_types.CPU_SIGS["EPYC-v4"],
                              ovmf_path, kernel_path, initrd_path, cmdline_str)
print("Calculated measurement:", ld.hex())

block = id_block.snp_calc_id_block(ld,"id_key_file","author_key_file")
print("Calculated id block in base64", block)

Choosing guest CPU type

For SEV-ES and SEV-SNP, the initial CPU state (VMSA) includes the guest CPU signature in the edx register. Therefore, starting the VM with a different type of guest CPU will modify the content of the VMSA, and therefore modify the calculated measurement.

You can choose the guest CPU type using --vcpu-type, or --vcpu-sig, or a combination of --vcpu-family, --vcpu-model, and --vcpu-stepping. For example, the following 3 invocations are identical:

1. sev-snp-measure --vcpu-type=EPYC-v4 ...
2. sev-snp-measure --vcpu-sig=0x800f12 ...
3. sev-snp-measure --vcpu-family=23 --vcpu-model=1 --vcpu-stepping=2 ...

Precalculated OVMF hashes

The SEV-SNP digest gets generated in multiple steps that each have a digest as output. With that digest output, you can stop at any of these steps and continue generation of the full digest later. These are the steps:

1. OVMF
2. (optional) -kernel, -initrd, -append arguments
3. Initial state of all vCPUs

In situations where only minor OVMF changes happen, you may not want to copy the full OVMF binary to the validation system. In these situations, you can cut digest calculation after the OVMF step and use its hash instead of the full binary.

To generate a hash, use the --mode snp:ovmf-hash parameter:

$ sev-snp-measure --mode snp:ovmf-hash --ovmf OVMF.fd
cab7e085874b3acfdbe2d96dcaa3125111f00c35c6fc9708464c2ae74bfdb048a198cb9a9ccae0b3e5e1a33f5f249819

On a different machine that only has access to an older but compatible OVMF binary, you can then ingest the hash again to generate a full measurement:

$ sev-snp-measure --mode snp --vcpus=1 --vcpu-type=EPYC-v4 --ovmf=OVMF.fd.old --ovmf-hash cab7e[...]
d52697c3e056fb8d698d19cc29adfbed5a8ec9170cb9eb63c2ac957d22b4eb647e25780162036d063a0cf418b8830acc

Related projects

• libvirt tools: virt-dom-sev-validate, virt-dom-sev-vmsa-tool
• sev Rust crate
• snp-digest-rs
• AMD SEV-Tool

Notes

If you have any questions or issues you can create a new issue here

Pull requests are welcome!

License

Apache 2.0 license.