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/usr/bin/tpm2_loadexternal

Command-line tools for TPM 2.0 built on tpm2-tss, providing the tpm2 multi-call binary and the tpm2_* tool symlinks

From tpm2-tools 5.8-r0 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-09 by running tpm2_loadexternal --help (exit 0). permalink

Usage: tpm2_loadexternal [<options>]
Where <options> are:
    [ -C | --hierarchy=<value>] [ -u | --public=<value>] [ -r | --private=<value>] [ -c | --key-context=<value>]
    [ -a | --attributes=<value>] [ -L | --policy=<value>] [ -p | --auth=<value>] [ -g | --hash-algorithm=<value>]
    [ -G | --key-algorithm=<value>] [ -n | --name=<value>] [ --passin=<value>] [ --cphash=<value>]
    [ -R | --autoflush] [ -e | --rsa_exponent_zero]

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