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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 18:53:55 +0300
From: Petko Manolov <petkan@...-labs.com>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
Abelardo Ricart III <aricart@...nix.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>, keyrings@...ux-nfs.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?
On 15-05-19 11:37:49, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 07:36 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >
> > What integrity stuff? IIRC dm-verity doesn't use asymmetric crypto at
> > all. IMA probably does, though.
>
> IMA can appraise file integrity based on either hashes or signatures.
> The difference being that In addition to file integrity, signatures
> provides file provenance. Going forward we'd like to see software come
> with the associated file signatures.
I second this one. There's plenty of situations where integrity isn't enough
and authenticity is needed.
cheers,
Petko
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