Re: [Tee-dev] [RFC v2 0/6] Introduce TEE based Trusted Keys support

[Sumit Garg]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 14:00, Janne Karhunen <janne.karhunen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:58 AM Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Anyway, just my .02c. I guess having any new support in the kernel for
> > > new trust sources is good and improvement from the current state. I
> > > can certainly make my stuff work with your setup as well, what ever
> > > people think is the best.
> >
> > Yes your implementation can very well fit under trusted keys
> > abstraction framework without creating a new keytype: "ext-trusted".
>
> The fundamental problem with the 'standardized kernel tee' still
> exists - it will never be generic in real life. Getting all this in
> the kernel will solve your problem and sell this particular product,
> but it is quite unlikely to help that many users. If the security is
> truly important to you, would you really trust any of this code to
> someone else? In this day and age, I really doubt many do.

There are already multiple platforms supported by OP-TEE [1] which
could benefit from this trusted keys interface.

> Everyone
> does their own thing, so this is why I really see all that as a
> userspace problem.
>

IMO, we should try to use standardized interfaces which are well
thought off rather than implementing your own.

[1] https://optee.readthedocs.io/general/platforms.html


-Sumit

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> --
> Janne