From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Abelardo Ricart III <aricart@memnix.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
keyrings@linux-nfs.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 13:55:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519175510.GB26822@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3253.1432052599@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 05:23:19PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Did you mean make it possible to only use external hardware for storing the
> key? That wouldn't very convenient for building our kernels in our build farm
> - we have a lot of machines and all of them would have to be equiped with the
> key. Besides, we *want* to discard the private key where possible as soon as
> possible because then we can't leak it and we can't be forced to disclose it.
Oh, so you are generating a one-time key for each kernel build, and
then dropping the public key into a cert which is then signed by some
trusted CA system? (Which I presume *would* be done with the private
key stored in some trusted secured hardware --- i.e., YubiKey,
SmartCard, or some other tempest-shielded hardware designed for use by
CA's)?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-19 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-18 16:04 Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all? David Howells
2015-05-18 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-18 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-18 16:55 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-18 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 0:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 7:42 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 8:53 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 12:46 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 12:52 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 14:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 15:30 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 15:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-19 16:09 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-19 16:23 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 17:55 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2015-05-19 18:10 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 21:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-05-20 7:45 ` Michal Marek
2015-05-20 7:47 ` Michal Marek
2015-05-19 17:32 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 17:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 17:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:38 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 18:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:50 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 18:57 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 19:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 15:59 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 15:37 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 15:53 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-19 17:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 17:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 18:08 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 18:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:38 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 18:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 20:00 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 20:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 20:25 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 18:44 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 19:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 16:10 ` David Howells
2015-05-21 16:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-23 20:37 ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-20 5:01 ` Rusty Russell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-21 23:54 George Spelvin
2015-05-22 0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 0:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 14:13 ` George Spelvin
2015-05-22 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 20:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 21:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 22:18 ` David Howells
2015-05-22 22:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 22:15 ` David Howells
2015-05-22 22:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 22:21 ` David Howells
2015-05-22 0:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 12:42 ` George Spelvin
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