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author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2015-07-20 23:16:27 +0300 |
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committer | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2015-08-07 18:26:13 +0300 |
commit | 3f1e1bea34740069f70c6bc92d0f712345d5c28e (patch) | |
tree | 35ceac092ff7591536810cceecdbf22f4132b046 /Documentation/sysctl | |
parent | bc1c373dd2a5113800360f7152be729c9da996cc (diff) | |
download | linux-3f1e1bea34740069f70c6bc92d0f712345d5c28e.tar.xz |
MODSIGN: Use PKCS#7 messages as module signatures
Move to using PKCS#7 messages as module signatures because:
(1) We have to be able to support the use of X.509 certificates that don't
have a subjKeyId set. We're currently relying on this to look up the
X.509 certificate in the trusted keyring list.
(2) PKCS#7 message signed information blocks have a field that supplies the
data required to match with the X.509 certificate that signed it.
(3) The PKCS#7 certificate carries fields that specify the digest algorithm
used to generate the signature in a standardised way and the X.509
certificates specify the public key algorithm in a standardised way - so
we don't need our own methods of specifying these.
(4) We now have PKCS#7 message support in the kernel for signed kexec purposes
and we can make use of this.
To make this work, the old sign-file script has been replaced with a program
that needs compiling in a previous patch. The rules to build it are added
here.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
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