On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:40:56PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 18:28 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > It requires the key to survive the system being entirely powered down, > > which means it needs to be BS+NV. It shouldn't be possible for userspace > > to access this key. > > It requires the *public* key to survive power down, certainly. The > private key can be thrown away once the hibernate image is signed. I > think the scheme can be constructed so the private key is never in NV > storage ... that also makes it more secure against tampering.
Well, that somewhat complicates implementation - we'd be encrypting the entire contents of memory except for the key that we're using to encrypt memory. Keeping the public key away from userspace avoids having to care about that. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
