linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] KEYS: validate certificate trust only with selected owner key

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:47:16 +0300
From:	Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@...sung.com>
To:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	keyrings <keyrings@...ux-nfs.org>,
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] KEYS: validate certificate trust only with selected
 owner key

On 27/06/14 20:44, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 14:55 +0100, David Howells wrote: 
>> Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This patch defines a new kernel parameter 'keys_ownerid' to identify
>>> the owner's key which must be used for trust validation of certificates.
>> "ca_keys" or "only_ca" instead, maybe?
> Neither of these names reflect the concept of the machine owner or a
> local key.  The initial patches named it 'owner_keyid'.  If kernel
> parameters don't need to be prefixed with the subsystem, we could revert
> the name change or call it localca_keyid.
>
> Mimi

I neither against any of proposals.

But considering that we use those keys to verify other keys, they become
ca keys.
So from that point of view I think 'ca_keys' reflects functionality
quite ok.

localca_ prefix is may be not very relevant as builtin keys may
comesfrom kernel vendor (RH, Ubuntu)
and is not really local...

so let's decide on 'ca_keys'?

Thanks,
Dmitry

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