Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] KEYS: Add support for PGP keys and signatures

Herbert Xu
2024-09-15T08:08:18Z

On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 09:11:04AM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> So honestly, just the series adding pgp key verification I have no
> objection to. The use case where some firmware uses pgp to validate
> allowed keys in EFI variables etc sounds like a "ok, then we need to
> parse them".

The use-case for EFI variables appears to be invalid:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXH8nWtAzX+9xc2tLyy5d0w==JNQCMJBAbL=LdcF+XrYkw@mail.gmail.com/

> The objections I had were against the whole "start doing policy in
> kernel", with what sounded like actually parsing and unpacking rpm
> contents and verifying them with a pgp key. *That* still sounds like a
> disaster to me, and is the part that made me go "why isn't that done
> in user space together with then generating the fsverifty
> information"?

If the aformentioned EFI use-case is bogus, then distro package
verification is going to be the only application for PGP keys in
the kernel.

Cheers,
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