linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/8] modsign: Allow password to be specified for signing key

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Message-ID: <20150519155010.GA7549@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 18:50:10 +0300
From:	Petko Manolov <petkan@...-labs.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, mmarek@...e.cz,
	mjg59@...f.ucam.org, keyrings@...ux-nfs.org,
	dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com, mcgrof@...e.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, seth.forshee@...onical.com,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/8] modsign: Allow password to be specified for signing
 key

On 15-05-19 15:45:58, David Woodhouse wrote:
> We don't want this in the Kconfig since it might then get exposed in
> /proc/config.gz. So make it a parameter to Kbuild instead. This also
> means we don't have to jump through hoops to strip quotes from it, as
> we would if it was a config option.

If it were on a network-less, secure sign/build server i'd say it is OK.  

However, exposing your private key's password in an environment variable on a 
regular Linux box is a bit fishy.


cheers,
Petko
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