Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] ima-evm-utils: Add --keyid option

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Stefan,

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 04:10:25PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 5/5/21 11:46 PM, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> > Allow user to set signature's keyid using `--keyid' option. Keyid should
> > correspond to SKID in certificate. When keyid is calculated using SHA-1
> > in libimaevm it may mismatch keyid extracted by the kernel from SKID of
> > certificate (the way public key is presented to the kernel), thus making
> > signatures not verifiable. This may happen when certificate is using non
> > SHA-1 SKID (see rfc7093) or just 'unique number' (see rfc5280 4.2.1.2).
> > As a last resort user may specify arbitrary keyid using the new option.
> > Certificate @filename could be used instead of the hex number. And,
> > third option is to read keyid from the cert appended to the key file.
> > 
> > These commits create backward incompatible ABI change for libimaevm,
> >   thus soname should be incremented on release.
> 
> I hope this will not be forgotten about. Maybe it should be part of this
> series here?

https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html

  "Update the version information only immediately before a public
  release of your software."

I believe we should follow this.

Thanks,




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