On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 05:20:46PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 22:25 +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> > This patch adds codes in EFI stub for generating and storing the
> > HMAC key in EFI boot service variable for signing hibernate image.
> >
> > Per rcf2104, the length of HMAC-SHA1 hash result is 20 bytes, and
> > it recommended the length of key the same with hash rsult, means
> > also 20 bytes. Using longer key would not significantly increase
> > the function strength. Due to the nvram space is limited in some
> > UEFI machines, so using the minimal recommended length 20 bytes
> > key that will stored in boot service variable.
> >
> > For generating a messy number as a 20 bytes key, the codes in EFI
> > stub gets u32 random number five time and every random number is
> > rolling that last u32 random number as entropy.
> >
> > The HMAC key stored in EFI boot service variable, the GUID is
> > S4SignKey-fe141863-c070-478e-b8a3-878a5dc9ef21.
>
> [...]
>
> > @@ -1383,6 +1384,60 @@ free_mem_map:
> > return status;
> > }
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATE_VERIFICATION
> > +#define SWSUSP_KEY \
> > + ((efi_char16_t [10]) { 'S', 'W', 'S', 'U', 'S', 'P', 'K', 'e', 'y', 0 })
> > +#define SWSUSP_KEY_ATTRIBUTE (EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE | \
> > + EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS)
>
> You mean "SWSUSPKey" not "S4SignKey" right?
>
Oh! it's my fault. In 2013 PKI edition, there havse sign key and verify key.
The HMAC edition has only one SWSUSPKey.
I will change the variable name in patch description.
Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee
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