linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] KEYS: validate certificate trust with selected owner or builtin key

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:20:32 -0400
From:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@...sung.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, jwboyer@...hat.com, keyrings@...ux-nfs.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] KEYS: validate certificate trust with selected
 owner or builtin key

On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 11:56 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: 
> Instead of allowing public keys, with certificates signed by any key on
> the system trusted keyring, to be added to a trusted keyring, this patch
> set further restricts the certificates to those signed by a particular key
> or builtin keys on the system keyring.
> 
> This patch defines a new kernel parameter 'keys_ownerid={id: | builtin}'
> to use specific key or any builtin key.
> 
> Changes to v1:
> * key id matching code from asymmetric_type.c is reused in the patch

Nice!  The first two we'll upstream, but defer the builtin patch until
the UEFI key patches are upstreamed.

thanks,

Mimi

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