[PATCH 0/4] Add CA enforcement in the machine keyring
Mimi Zohar
zohar at linux.ibm.com
Wed Mar 9 18:43:06 UTC 2022
On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 12:36 -0500, Eric Snowberg wrote:
I would begin by saying,
The "Enroll kernel keys thru MOK" patch set introduced a new root of
trust by defining a "machine" keyring, which is linked to the
secondary_trusted_keyring. All Machine Owner Keys (MOK) are loaded
into the machine keyring.
Then proceed with the IMA new root of trust requirements - root CA
(self-signed CA) with keyUsage limited to keyCertSign.
> A key added to the IMA keyring must be signed by a key contained in either the
^A certificate ... must be signed
> built-in trusted or secondary trusted keyring. IMA also requires these keys
> to be a CA. The only option for an end-user to add their own CA is to compile
> it into the kernel themselves or to use the insert-sys-cert. Many end-users
> do not want to compile their own kernels. With the insert-sys-cert option,
> there are missing upstream changes.
>
> Currently, all Machine Owner Keys (MOK) load into the machine keyring.
Moved to the beginning.
> Add
^Define
>
> a new Kconfig option to only allow CA keys into the machine keyring. When
Add the other criteria here as well.
> compiled with the new INTEGRITY_MACHINE_KEYRING_CA_ENFORCED Kconfig, non CA
> keys will load into the platform keyring instead. This will allow the end-
> user to enroll their own CA key into the machine keyring for use with IMA.
>
> These patches are based on Jarkko's linux-tpmdd tree.
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd.git
thanks,
Mimi
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