linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] EVM

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Message-ID: <4C062092.2030608@nokia.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:12:50 +0300
From:	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...ia.com>
To:	ext Shaz <shazalive@...il.com>
CC:	ext Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org" 
	<linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Safford <safford@...son.ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	securityengineeringresearchgroup 
	<securityengineeringresearchgroup@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] EVM


On 02/06/10 10:50, ext Shaz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Dmitry Kasatkin
> <dmitry.kasatkin@...ia.com> wrote:
>   
>>
>> On 01/06/10 22:28, ext Mimi Zohar wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 15:08 +0500, Shaz wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> EVM is based on EA while Aegis does not use EA as far as I can
>>>>> understand from the documentation available. Can we make EVM
>>>>> independent of EA? Even the MAC mechanism is very different then
>>>>> existing LSM based mechanisms.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Have a look at the following:
>>>>
>>>> http://research.nokia.com/files/NRCTR2008010.pdf
>>>> http://research.nokia.com/files/NRCTR2008007.pdf
>>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/372937/
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> SELinux, Smack, Capabilities, and IMA all use extended attributes. The
>>> purpose of EVM is to detect offline tampering of these security extended
>>> attributes.
>>>       
> MeeGo/Maemo security framework does not use LSM because Maemo/MeeGo
> security framework only focuses at process level MAC and for that they
> use Dazuko as Nokia research report mentions.
>
> By the way MeeGo 1.0 has no security at the moment so one cannot be
> sure if they are going according to their research or what. They are
> also not opening the internals of their security framework. Not sure
> why if the whole thing is open and Linux Foundation is backing it up.
>
>   
Maemo/MeeGo does not do exactly what is written in that research report.
It has been done in parallel to our work.
And we do use LSM.

We go approval from company layers to open source the work.
We will see what to do next.

>>> The IMA integrity appraisal extension extends IMA with local measurement
>>> appraisal. The extension stores and maintains the file integrity
>>> measurement as an extended attribute 'security.ima', which EVM can be
>>> configured to protect.  Instead of storing the hash measurement as an
>>> extended attribute, the file hashes could be loaded in kernel memory, as
>>> long as the appraise policy is appropriately constrained.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maemo integrity protection solution was based on old DigSig project
>> which was used to verify
>> integrity of executables. Signed integrity measurement was embedded to
>> the ELF header.
>> When we started to develop it EVM was not available.
>>
>> And we decided to use a file to keep hashes and other info.
>>
>> Our goals were
>> 1. Protect also certain data files.
>> digsig worked only with ELF files.
>>
>> 2. Be mobile friendly
>> It seems faster to verify signature of one file with hashes instead of
>> checking signature of every EA.
>>     
> Here Mimi can explain better because I am of the same opinion as yours
> if you mean that all signatures lie in one file and you check it from
> there. Anyways some sort of policy can reduce checking every EA ... I
> guess.
>
>   
>> 3. Persistant to offline attacks
>> EA can be delete. If not all files has EA then it is not possible to
>> detect removal
>>     
> Availability of EA on all file systems needs some effort but it's not
> a big deal. I have even seen patches for yaffs2.
>
>   
The issue was removal.
>> 4. Do not use EA.
>> IIRC it was some problems with EA on our system and we could not use them..
>>     
> This is a bad excuse :)
>
>   
Yes. not so convincing...
>> EVM looks very interesting and I would like also to review the code and
>> understand the architecture.
>> We consider possibility to use EVM if it is going to be in the kernel.
>>     
> Please do have a look because we need these features too but in a
> light weight manner. We are trying to make available similar
> functionality for OpenMoko based software stacks.
>
>   
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