✦ Executive Abstract
Federal executive orders (EO 14028) and CMMC 2.0 Level 2 standards mandate cryptographically unalterable supply chain provenance and hardware-bound state validation for all software deployed in defense environments. This blueprint details Aetherion's implementation of TPM 2.0 Platform Configuration Register (PCR) sealing across [0, 2, 4, 11], Windows VBS/VirtualLock memory zeroization, and Cosign-signed CycloneDX 1.6 SBOM generation.
1. Platform Configuration Register (PCR) Sealing
By interrogating hardware TPM PCR registers at application bootstrap, Aetherion agents ensure that UEFI firmware (PCR 0), Option ROMs (PCR 2), Boot Manager binaries (PCR 4), and BitLocker/VBS enclave partitions (PCR 11) have not been tampered with prior to decrypting cryptographic master keys.