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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: "Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	dhowells@redhat.com, jmorris@namei.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] ima: digital signature verification using asymmetric keys
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:56:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130128185625.GC5868@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALLzPKbjmoLGMVgY-GygZ9ScV1GNHKaKHGYsHc4=CeoYPL4rmw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 05:20:20PM +0200, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:

[..]
> > Ok. I am hoping that it will be more than the kernel command line we
> > support. In the sense that for digital signatures one needs to parse
> > the signature, look at what hash algorithm has been used  and then
> > collect the hash accordingly. It is little different then IMA requirement
> > of calculating one pre-determine hash for all files.
> 
> Yes... It is obvious. It's coming.
> But in general, signer should be aware of requirements and limitation
> of the platform.
> It is not really a problem...

One more question. I specified "ima_appraise_tcb" on kernel command line
and I had an unbootable system. It refused to run "init" as it was not
labeled/signed. Is there any policy/way where it appraises only signed
files and does not refuse to open/execute unsigned ones.

Thanks
Vivek

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-28 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-15 10:34 [RFC 0/1] ima/evm: signature verification support using asymmetric keys Dmitry Kasatkin
2013-01-15 10:34 ` [RFC 1/1] ima: digital signature verification " Dmitry Kasatkin
2013-01-22 22:53   ` Mimi Zohar
2013-01-23  9:03     ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-01-25 21:01       ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-28 14:54         ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-01-28 15:15           ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-28 15:20             ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-01-28 18:52               ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-28 19:51                 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-01-28 20:13                   ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-29  0:14                     ` Mimi Zohar
2013-01-29 16:30                       ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-29  8:53                     ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-01-29  8:48                 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-01-29 18:39                   ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-28 18:56               ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2013-01-28 20:15                 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-01-28 20:22                   ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-29  1:48                     ` Mimi Zohar
2013-01-29 16:58                       ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-30  6:32                         ` Matthew Garrett
2013-01-30 22:22                           ` Mimi Zohar
2013-01-29 18:20                       ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-29 20:01                         ` Mimi Zohar
2013-01-29 20:10                           ` Vivek Goyal
2013-01-29 22:26                             ` Mimi Zohar
2013-01-16 19:45 ` [RFC 0/1] ima/evm: signature verification support " Mimi Zohar
2013-01-17 17:52 ` [RFC 1/1] ima: digital signature verification " David Howells
2013-01-17 18:00   ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-01-17 18:03 ` [RFC 0/1] ima/evm: signature verification support " David Howells
2013-01-18 15:16   ` Mimi Zohar

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