Re: [PATCH ima-evm-utils v4] evmctl: Use secure heap for private keys and passwords

Mimi Zohar
2021-09-10T19:04:11Z

Hi Vitaly, Stefan,

On Fri, 2021-09-10 at 10:55 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> What was the conclusion in terms of reading the password stored in the
> environment variable?

If this is an issue, perhaps call the equivalent of optarg_password()
to store the environment variable in secure heap memory.

Something like:
imaevm_params.keypass =
optarg_password(getenv("EVMCTL_KEY_PASSWORD"));

optarg_password() would then become a wrapper around the new function.

thanks,

Mimi