On 2016-04-08, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> Doing this well involves knowing what the expected values are to begin 
> with. Some of these values come from the firmware, and so we can't do 
> much about them without the assistance of the system vendors. But these 
> values don't tend to change over the course of a system's lifetime 
> (unless you update the firmware), so it's much easier to do something 
> about that. Other components *do* change over time as we update grub or 
> the kernel, and it's immensely helpful to be able to identify these 
> ahead of time.
>
> In CoreOS we've started shipping bundles of the expected PCR values with 
> each release. I'd like to start exploring how to do the same in Fedora. 
> Things are much easier in CoreOS since we don't ship individual OS 
> components, and so the values are very much tied to OS releases - in 
> Fedora they'd mostly be associated with individual packages. It'd be 
> easy to bundle the values in with the packages themselves, but that's 
> harder for admins to extract. A central location to publish this kind of 
> metadata would be ideal.
>
I'm curious how you would predict hash of initramfs because it is
generated on the host and depends on dracut configuration and presence
of various optionally installed packages.

-- Petr
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