Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:54:48 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Crypto keys and module signing |
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On 12/10/2011 3:42 AM, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:47 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi James, >> >> Could you pull my module signing code into the security tree? >> The patches can be viewed here: >> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-modsign.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/devel > >> > If I understand it is not possible to sign modules after they are > built and load keys without actually rebuilding kernel?
only if the end user chooses to enforce the signature.
> > For distro kernel the public and secret keys have to be available > publicly, right? Otherwise people using distro kernels won't be > able to build own signed modules for use with that distro kernel.
That's a distro choice, but... again:
only if the user chooses to enforce the signature. Very few people actually build their own modules, and for the people that don't, they can chose to harden their server by only allowing signed (eg distro shipped) modules.
For those who prefer to build a few other things and still want security, they can also rebuild the kernel.
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