Re: [PATCH v7 7/8] ima: check against blacklisted hashes for files with modsig

[Nayna]

Hi Mimi,


On 10/11/2019 09:19 AM, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 21:14 -0400, Nayna Jain wrote:
> > Asymmetric private keys are used to sign multiple files. The kernel
> > currently support checking against the blacklisted keys. However, if the
> > public key is blacklisted, any file signed by the blacklisted key will
> > automatically fail signature verification. We might not want to blacklist
> > all the files signed by a particular key, but just a single file.
> > Blacklisting the public key is not fine enough granularity.
> >
> > This patch adds support for blacklisting binaries with appended signatures,
> > based on the IMA policy.  Defined is a new policy option
> > "appraise_flag=check_blacklist".
> The blacklisted hash is not the same as the file hash, but is the file
> hash without the appended signature. ÂAre there tools for calculating
> the blacklisted hash? ÂCan you provide an example?

I have updated the patch description to specify that the blacklisted 
hash is the file hash without the appended signature. I hope that makes 
it clear now.

Thanks & Regards,
ÂÂÂ - Nayna