[PATCH v2] Instantiate key with user-provided decrypted data.

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Tue Dec 14 12:37:30 UTC 2021


Hi Yael,

On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 14:20 -0500, Yael Tiomkin wrote:
> The encrypted.c class supports instantiation of encrypted keys with
> either an already-encrypted key material, or by generating new key
> material based on random numbers. To support encryption of
> user-provided decrypted data, this patch defines a new datablob
> format: [<format>] <master-key name> <decrypted data length>
> <decrypted data>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yael Tiomkin <yaelt at google.com>

Other than the comment below,
    Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>

Could you also provide an LTP test for defining, exporting, and loading
an encrypted key based on user provided key data?

thanks,

Mimi

> ---

> @@ -303,6 +306,16 @@ Load an encrypted key "evm" from saved blob::
>      82dbbc55be2a44616e4959430436dc4f2a7a9659aa60bb4652aeb2120f149ed197c564e0
>      24717c64 5972dcb82ab2dde83376d82b2e3c09ffc
>  
> +Instantiate an encrypted key "evm" using user-provided decrypted data::
> +
> +    $ keyctl add encrypted evm "new default user:kmk 32 `cat evm.blob`" @u
> +    794890253

The existing references to "evm.blob" refer to the encrypted key data. 
Here "evm.blob" is unencrypted data.  Perhaps name it something like
"evm.user-provided-data" data.

> +
> +    $ keyctl print 794890253
> +    default user:kmk 32 2375725ad57798846a9bbd240de8906f006e66c03af53b1b382d
> +    bbc55be2a44616e4959430436dc4f2a7a9659aa60bb4652aeb2120f149ed197c564e0247
> +    17c64 5972dcb82ab2dde83376d82b2e3c09ffc
> +



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