What's the state of this project? Alternatives?

[rhegner]

Trusted Computing is a new topic for me and I'm currently watching Ariel Segalls Introduction To Trusted Computing lectures.

Ariel mentions flicker in her talk, and it seems to me that a mechanism like that, which allows to run critical operations in a very constrained environment, opens up amazing possibilities.

But it looks like this project has been pretty much discontinued (no updates for 5 years, no 64 bit support, not TPM 2.0 support).

• Can the current codebase still be used with modern CPUs and OSes?
• I'm assuming lots has changed in the world of Trusted Computing since flicker was created. Is the flicker approach still a feasible approach today? Or are there now other options to solve the problem?
• Are you aware of any modern and actively maintained alternatives?

[pietrushnic]

@rhegner I plan to refresh some concepts related to Flicker in my Open DRTM and TrenchBoot talk during Qubes OS and 3mdeb minisummit 2020