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Core Root of Trust for Measurement (CRTM)

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-000972

The first piece of BIOS code that executes on the main processor during the boot process. On a system with a Trusted Platform Module the CRTM is implicitly trusted to bootstrap the process of building a measurement chain for subsequent attestation of other firmware and software that is executed on the computer system.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-000972
FieldCybersecurity
AbbreviationCRTM
ReferencesNIST SP 800-147; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-000972",
  "term": "Core Root of Trust for Measurement (CRTM)",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "The first piece of BIOS code that executes on the main processor during the boot process. On a system with a Trusted Platform Module the CRTM is implicitly trusted to bootstrap the process of building a measurement chain for subsequent attestation of other firmware and software that is executed on the computer system.",
  "abbreviation": "CRTM",
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-147",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/core-root-of-trust-for-measurement-crtm/"
}

Record 972 of 4,693 in Cybersecurity terminology (MLC-0102). Request the full dataset.