Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not sure why you're bringing this up at such a late date.   There
> was a kernel summit discussion led by Rusty on kernel module
> verification.  The result of that discussion was to append the signature
> to the kernel modules.  At the same time, Kees Cook was told to define
> an LSM kernel module hook.  IMA is on that hook and can be used to
> verify kernel modules integrity based on either fiel hashes or
> signatures.  The choice is yours.

I didn't notice that discussion.  If I had, I would have suggested this at KS.


--Andy
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