Update the documentation to mention that ECC NIST P-384 automatic
keypair generation is available to use ECDSA signature type, in
addition to the RSA.
Drop mentions of the now removed SHA-1 and SHA-224 options.
Add the just added FIPS 202 SHA-3 module signature hashes.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst | 17 +++++++++++------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst
index 2898b27032..a8667a7774 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ trusted userspace bits.
This facility uses X.509 ITU-T standard certificates to encode the public keys
involved. The signatures are not themselves encoded in any industrial standard
-type. The facility currently only supports the RSA public key encryption
-standard (though it is pluggable and permits others to be used). The possible
-hash algorithms that can be used are SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and
-SHA-512 (the algorithm is selected by data in the signature).
+type. The built-in facility currently only supports the RSA & NIST P-384 ECDSA
+public key signing standard (though it is pluggable and permits others to be
+used). The possible hash algorithms that can be used are SHA-2 and SHA-3 of
+sizes 256, 384, and 512 (the algorithm is selected by data in the signature).
==========================
@@ -81,11 +81,12 @@ This has a number of options available:
sign the modules with:
=============================== ==========================================
- ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA1`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-1`
- ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA224`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-224`
``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA256`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-256`
``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA384`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-384`
``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA512`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-512`
+ ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA3_256`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA3-256`
+ ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA3_384`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA3-384`
+ ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA3_512`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA3-512`
=============================== ==========================================
The algorithm selected here will also be built into the kernel (rather
@@ -145,6 +146,10 @@ into vmlinux) using parameters in the::
file (which is also generated if it does not already exist).
+One can select between RSA (``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_RSA``) and ECDSA
+(``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_ECDSA``) to generate either RSA 4k or NIST
+P-384 keypair.
+
It is strongly recommended that you provide your own x509.genkey file.
Most notably, in the x509.genkey file, the req_distinguished_name section
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