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Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 13:44:37 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
petkan@...-labs.com, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:13 AM, George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1) Create a tool to canonicalize the kernel and modules,
>> stripping out the signatures before comparing them. This has
>> precedent in the way the prelink tool can un-prelink binaries
>> so that hashes can be verified.
>
> So I'd obviously prefer this, so that we have just one model for verification.
>
In the threat model where module signatures matter in the first place
[1], this prevents reproducible builds from serving their purpose. I
can build a kernel with a fresh signing key and throw away the private
key. You can build a canonically identical kernel with a private key
that you keep. A third party using mine is safe, but a third party
using yours is unsafe, even though the whole packages canonicalize to
exactly the same bytes.
[1] I still think this is a silly threat model, but many people
disagree with me.
--Andy
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