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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: mmarek@suse.cz, dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Abelardo Ricart III <aricart@memnix.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	keyrings@linux-nfs.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 17:04:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31154.1431965087@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)

Hi Michal, Dave,

Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all since that has
the possibility of accidentally overwriting a key that the builder has placed
in the tree?

Should we instead provide a script:

	./scripts/generate-key

That generates a key if run and make it so that the build fails if you turn on
module signing and there's no key.

The script could then be parameterised, eg:

	./scripts/generate-key -n dhowells@redhat.com -k rsa2048 -d sha256 \
		-o ./my-signing-key.priv -x ./my-signing-key.x509 \
		-p "correct horse battery staple"

Yes, this might throw randconfig into a strop but that can be dealt with by:

 (1) Requiring anyone who runs randconfig to provide a key first just in case.

 (2) Marking the CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL option to be ignored by randconfig - it
     only applies during installation anyway.

 (3) Accept that module *installation* will fail due to a lack of private key
     and just handle a complete lack of X.509 certs in the source and build
     dirs when assembling system_certificates.S.

David

             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-18 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-18 16:04 David Howells [this message]
2015-05-18 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-18 16:22   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-18 16:55     ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-18 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19  0:51   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19  7:42     ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 17:44     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 17:58       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 18:08         ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 18:12           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:38             ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 18:49               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 20:00                 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 20:05                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 20:25                     ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 18:44           ` David Howells
2015-05-19 19:01             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 16:10             ` David Howells
2015-05-21 16:50               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-23 20:37       ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-20  5:01     ` Rusty Russell
2015-05-19  8:53   ` David Howells
2015-05-19 12:46     ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 12:52     ` David Howells
2015-05-19 14:36     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 15:37       ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 15:53         ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-19 17:17         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 15:30     ` David Howells
2015-05-19 15:55       ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-19 16:09         ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-19 17:32         ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 17:43           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 17:53             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 16:23       ` David Howells
2015-05-19 17:55         ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-19 18:10         ` David Howells
2015-05-19 21:47         ` Jiri Kosina
2015-05-20  7:45           ` Michal Marek
2015-05-20  7:47         ` Michal Marek
2015-05-19 17:17       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:38       ` David Howells
2015-05-19 18:46         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:50         ` David Howells
2015-05-19 18:57         ` David Howells
2015-05-19 19:06           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 15:59           ` David Howells
2015-05-21 23:54 George Spelvin
2015-05-22  0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22  0:10   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 14:13   ` George Spelvin
2015-05-22 20:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 20:44       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 21:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 22:18         ` David Howells
2015-05-22 22:21           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 22:15     ` David Howells
2015-05-22 22:19       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 22:21       ` David Howells
2015-05-22  0:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 12:42   ` George Spelvin

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