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/usr/bin/tpm2_startauthsession

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_startauthsession --help (exit 0). permalink

Usage: tpm2_startauthsession [<options>]
Where <options> are:
    [ --policy-session] [ --audit-session] [ --bind-context=<value>] [ --bind-auth=<value>]
    [ --tpmkey-context=<value>] [ --hmac-session] [ -g | --hash-algorithm=<value>] [ -G | --key-algorithm=<value>]
    [ -S | --session=<value>] [ -c | --key-context=<value>] [ -n | --name=<value>]

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.