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From: Shaz <shazalive@gmail.com>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@nokia.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" 
	<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	securityengineeringresearchgroup 
	<securityengineeringresearchgroup@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] EVM
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:53:06 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinIVaTocIgStpwKlXDByS7Z9t_OxJDYg0DoUMIN@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275487340.3068.74.camel@localhost.localdomain>

> Yes, verifying one file containing the hashes would be faster than
> verifying individual hashes stored as extended attributes (xattrs), but
> this does not take into account that files on a running system are being
> modified or added. On a small form factor, the number of files is
> limited, but would this scale well? In addition, what protects that one
> file containing all the hashes from being modified?  So, if you limit

How about sealing to protect this file?

> the types of files to those that don't change, and the number of file
> hashes, then using a single file would be faster.



-- 
Shaz

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-04  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-21 21:49 [PATCH 00/14] EVM Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 01/14] integrity: move ima inode integrity data management Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 02/14] security: move LSM xattrnames to xattr.h Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 03/14] xattr: define vfs_getxattr_alloc and vfs_xattr_cmp Mimi Zohar
2010-04-26 18:50   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 04/14] evm: re-release Mimi Zohar
2010-04-26 21:03   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-06-04 14:28   ` Stephen Smalley
2010-06-04 14:53     ` Mimi Zohar
2010-06-04 15:20       ` Stephen Smalley
2010-06-04 18:08         ` David Safford
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 05/14] ima: move ima_file_free before releasing the file Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 06/14] security: imbed evm calls in security hooks Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 07/14] evm: inode post removexattr Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 08/14] evm: imbed evm_inode_post_setattr Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 09/14] evm: inode_post_init Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 10/14] fs: add evm_inode_post_init calls Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 11/14] ima: integrity appraisal extension Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 12/14] ima: appraise default rules Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 13/14] ima: inode post_setattr Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:49 ` [PATCH 14/14] ima: add ima_inode_setxattr and ima_inode_removexattr Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 21:58 ` [PATCH 00/14] EVM Randy Dunlap
2010-04-21 22:18   ` Mimi Zohar
2010-04-21 22:23     ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-21 22:41       ` Mimi Zohar
2010-05-31  0:20 ` James Morris
2010-05-31 10:02   ` Shaz
2010-05-31 10:08     ` Shaz
2010-06-01 19:28       ` Mimi Zohar
2010-06-02  7:03         ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2010-06-02  7:50           ` Shaz
2010-06-02  9:12             ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2010-06-02 10:15               ` Shaz
2010-06-02 10:23                 ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2010-06-02 14:02               ` Mimi Zohar
2010-06-04  6:53                 ` Shaz [this message]
2010-06-04 15:09                   ` Mimi Zohar
2010-06-04 18:47                     ` Shaz
2010-06-04  0:57         ` James Morris
2010-06-04  6:56           ` Shaz
2010-06-04 20:25           ` [ProbableSpam] " David Safford

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