Re: RFC: Make it practical to ship EVM signatures

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Hi all,

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I will check Mikhail's patches.
Give me a moment.

Thanks,
Dmitry


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 02:10 +0300, Mikhail Kurinnoi wrote:
>> For now, we don't have ready for upstream "immutable" EVM signature
>> format support patch. Both, Dmitry's and my, patches need more work
>> in order to prevent file's data changes (in case of IMA hash) and
>> metadata changes for files signed by "immutable" EVM xattr (same idea
>> as we already have for IMA digsig, that prevent file's data change).
>
> After looking at your patches again, I think we should combine the
> "immutable" and "portable" concepts so that the new "portable"
> signature type is written out and considered "immutable".
>
> Dmitry's patch does prevent the file from changing, but that code is
> in IMA, but should be in EVM.  I agree we can defer preventing the
> file from changing.
>
> Mimi
>



-- 
Thanks,
Dmitry



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