Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-07-18 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2011/7/18 Denys Vlasenko : > On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 18:15 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> The TPM allows verifying that this kernel (and only this kernel) is >> actually running.  An attacker with access to the hard drive ("evil >> maid") can modify the code to disable any signature check that would

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-07-18 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 18:15 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:21 PM, JB wrote: > > I have done some inventory on this topic, and have some questions. > I'm not really an expert on this... Hopefully someone will correct my > mistakes. > > > Why do you need Trusted Boot mech

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-07-03 Thread 夜神 岩男
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:48 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > First, the TPM (nor the CPU) really can't tell the difference between > > the owner of the computer and an author of a virus. > > A jumper on the motherboard, or some other kind of physical circuit breaker, > can

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-30 Thread Peter Jones
On 06/29/2011 02:07 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:01 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >>> >>> Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : >>> Placing trust in the manufacturer of the hardware puts the user i

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-29 Thread Björn Persson
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:36 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > That's not impossible to change though. I have never dared to try > > Coreboot myself, for fear of destroying my motherboard, but in principle > > it's possible to replace the BIOS in most current computers with a

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:36 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:01 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : > > > > > Placing trust in the manu

RE: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-29 Thread Wei, Gang
Eric Paris wrote on 2011-06-23: > On 06/22/2011 03:20 PM, seth vidal wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 20:02 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> >> Are we going to continue the double grub entries? while I realize >> that tboot SHOULD allow non TXT hw to boot properly I also realize >> that any differe

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Callaway
On 06/27/2011 11:27 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > It doesn't, really. My understanding is that it takes a hash of the > contents of memory (and perhaps other state, I don't know) and submits > this "measurement" to the TPM. The sinit blob doesn't contain any > policy or configuration: it is only a

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-29 Thread Björn Persson
Miloslav Trmač wrote: > First, the TPM (nor the CPU) really can't tell the difference between > the owner of the computer and an author of a virus. A jumper on the motherboard, or some other kind of physical circuit breaker, can do that. It would have been possible to design the TPM to accept a n

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-29 Thread Björn Persson
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:01 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : > > > > Placing trust in the manufacturer of the hardware puts the user in no > > > > worse positio

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:01 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : > > > > > Placing trust in the manufacturer of the hardware puts the user in no > > > worse position than they were before

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > the processor serial number (PSN) wasn't shut down---every post-PIII CPU > has it. The access is often disabled by the BIOS, but it's there: > > http://pcworld.about.net/magazine/1903p198id38601.htm > > I think that TPC requires that PSN are enabled,

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 06/28/2011 03:25 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 06/25/2011 04:13 AM, Camilo Mesias wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: >>> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 22:21 +0200, nodata wrote: 2. This seems like Trusted Computing, which got shot down in flames. >>> >>> Who shot it

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 06/25/2011 04:13 AM, Camilo Mesias wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 22:21 +0200, nodata wrote: >>> 2. This seems like Trusted Computing, which got shot down in flames. >> >> Who shot it and why ? > > I don't know about Trusted Computing but th

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 06/23/2011 10:21 AM, JB wrote: > The Intel Trusted Platform consists of two components: > - Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip >A hardware component, consisting of cryptographic processor and secure >memory. > - Trusted Boot >A software component, open-source and partially close-sou

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 08:21:23PM +, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > Btw, TPM, or TXT exactly, can be hacked too (that has been done already). > > ... > > ... and she is cute too :-) Which is irrelevant to the discussion and also inappropriate for this list. -- Matthew

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread Michael Cronenworth
JB wrote: > ... and she is cute too:-) [snip] Seeing that Trusted Boot is not going to be a F16 feature I don't think we have to worry about any security implications for the time being. That is... until next time. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > ... > Btw, TPM, or TXT exactly, can be hacked too (that has been done already). > ... ... and she is cute too :-) http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/search/label/trusted%20execution%20technology and some more ... http://siblog.mcafee.com/data-protection/tpm-undres

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread Jon Ciesla
> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : >> >> > Placing trust in the manufacturer of the hardware puts the user in no >> > worse position than they were before. >> >> I don't call placing absolute vetting power in bios

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : > > > Placing trust in the manufacturer of the hardware puts the user in no > > worse position than they were before. > > I don't call placing absolute vetting power in bios writer h

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-28 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : > Placing trust in the manufacturer of the hardware puts the user in no > worse position than they were before. I don't call placing absolute vetting power in bios writer hands "no worse position". I don't thing anyone can point to a "good" bi

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-27 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2011/6/27 Miloslav Trmač : > The hardware owner configures the TPM so that submitting specific > "measurements" is required to use keys stored in the TPM. To avoid a misunderstanding, "hardware owner" is "the customer", not "hardware manufacturer". Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedor

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-27 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 16:53 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: >> The hardware manufacturer _only_ signs the sinit blob.  Any kernel/OS >> you use can be measured/"protected" by the TPM without an

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-27 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 16:53 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:12 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> > On 24/06/11 20:49, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > >> >> The purpose

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-27 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:12 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> > On 24/06/11 20:49, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> >> The purpose of the blob is to "measure" the system state; only the >> >> blob

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-27 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:08:44 -0400 Simo Sorce wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:12 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andrew Haley > > wrote: > > > On 24/06/11 20:49, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Haley > > >> wrote: > > >>

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-27 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:12 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > > On 24/06/11 20:49, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > >>> What I don't understand is why this feature requires a binary blob. > >>>

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-27 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 24/06/11 20:49, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> What I don't understand is why this feature requires a binary blob. >>> Surely whatever northbridge code is required can be free software,

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-27 Thread Andrew Haley
On 24/06/11 20:49, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> What I don't understand is why this feature requires a binary blob. >> Surely whatever northbridge code is required can be free software, >> Is this just security through obscurity? > > The purpose

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread JB
Chris Adams hiwaay.net> writes: > ... > I think there is some misunderstanding about what the discussion is > supposed to be about. The supporting open source code is already in > Fedora. The feature request is simply to modify grubby/anaconda to set > up the boot entries to include the suppor

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread nodata
On 25/06/11 18:52, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Camilo Mesias said: >> In a sense, part of it isn't under user control. There is a secret in >> there, held against the user, and possibly known by the manufacturer >> or other third parties. There is also a black box of code that could >>

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread inode0
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:41:36 -0600 > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > >> I welcome posts back on the technical topic of trusted boot. ;) > > Right. > > So can we have specifics about what it's good for? Not how it is > implemented, but what the purpos

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:41:36 -0600 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I welcome posts back on the technical topic of trusted boot. ;) Right. So can we have specifics about what it's good for? Not how it is implemented, but what the purposes are. And who the "trusted" entities are (can be) in the chain of

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Camilo Mesias said: > In a sense, part of it isn't under user control. There is a secret in > there, held against the user, and possibly known by the manufacturer > or other third parties. There is also a black box of code that could > do anything. You already have that; it is c

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:26:08 +0100 Camilo Mesias wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > ...snip... > > > > Can we move this back to technical, Fedora development related > > discussion? > > I am slightly disappointed with this response, after all, to quote the > origin

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Camilo Mesias wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > ...snip... > > > > Can we move this back to technical, Fedora development related > > discussion? > > I am slightly disappointed with this response, after all, to quote the > original

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > ...snip... > > Can we move this back to technical, Fedora development related > discussion? I am slightly disappointed with this response, after all, to quote the original message "Fesco decided that we should probably have a broader discussi

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
...snip... Can we move this back to technical, Fedora development related discussion? thanks, kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 22:21 +0200, nodata wrote: >> 2. This seems like Trusted Computing, which got shot down in flames. > > Who shot it and why ? I don't know about Trusted Computing but this does remind me of the Pentium III processor se

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread JB
Rahul Sundaram gmail.com> writes: > > On 06/24/2011 09:55 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote > > Rahul, > > > > Seems he is using references to support contentions...like a scholarly > > journal article. With respect, just as you are free to criticize on > > these mailing lists, he is free to speak on

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread 夜神 岩男
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:41 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > 2011/6/24 Tomas Mraz : > > Yes, I completely agree. What Gregory tries to emphasis here - as I > > understand it, of course he might have a different intention - is purely > > politics and I do not think, that Fedora should involve in polit

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread 夜神 岩男
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:11 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:01:45AM +0100, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > I am still struggling to see real applications for this. I don't know > > how a networked system using the technology could be differentiated > > from an (insecure) software simu

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 17:15 -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:09:22 -0400 > Simo Sorce wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 22:21 +0200, nodata wrote: > > > 2. This seems like Trusted Computing, which got shot down in flames. > > > > Who shot it and why ? > > > > > Does TrustedB

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:09:22 -0400 Simo Sorce wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 22:21 +0200, nodata wrote: > > 2. This seems like Trusted Computing, which got shot down in flames. > > Who shot it and why ? > > > Does TrustedBoot go against the core values of Fedora? > > Only if it is not under us

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 22:21 +0200, nodata wrote: > 2. This seems like Trusted Computing, which got shot down in flames. Who shot it and why ? > Does TrustedBoot go against the core values of Fedora? Only if it is not under user control, otherwise it is a very useful feature. Simo. -- Simo Sor

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread nodata
Two questions: 1. Can you please add some information to the feature page? I can't tell what TrustedBoot is and how it works. 2. This seems like Trusted Computing, which got shot down in flames. Does TrustedBoot go against the core values of Fedora? nd On 22/06/11 21:02, Matthew Garrett wrote

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > What I don't understand is why this feature requires a binary blob. > Surely whatever northbridge code is required can be free software, > Is this just security through obscurity? The purpose of the blob is to "measure" the system state; onl

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 06/24/2011 11:04 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/24/2011 09:55 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote >> Rahul, >> >> Seems he is using references to support contentions...like a scholarly >> journal article. With respect, just as you are free to criticize on >> these mailing lists, he is free to speak on

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 09:43 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > 2011/6/24 Tomas Mraz : > > On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:10 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Gregory Maxwell > >> wrote: > >> > If trusted boot in fedora is widely deployed, then $random_things may > >> > d

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/24/2011 09:55 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote > Rahul, > > Seems he is using references to support contentions...like a scholarly > journal article. With respect, just as you are free to criticize on > these mailing lists, he is free to speak on them as long as he follows > proper netiquette. T

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 06/24/2011 04:07 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/24/2011 12:55 PM, JB wrote: >> JB gmail.com> writes: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing >> >> TC is controversial because it is technically possible not just to secure the >> hardware for its owner, but also to secure against

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 06/24/2011 03:24 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> If you have *specific* concerns, let's hear those. You seem to just >> quoting parts of a public wiki page anyone can read. I don't see the >> point of that > > If trusted boot in fedora

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Björn Persson
Andrew Haley wrote: > What I don't understand is why this feature requires a binary blob. > Surely whatever northbridge code is required can be free software, > Is this just security through obscurity? That's a good question. I get the impression that Sinit (as the blob seems to be called) is fro

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
2011/6/24 Tomas Mraz : > On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:10 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> > If trusted boot in fedora is widely deployed, then $random_things may >> > demand I use a particular fedora kernel in order to access them. >> >> I can

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:01:45AM +0100, Camilo Mesias wrote: >>> I am still struggling to see real applications for this. I don't know >>> how a networked system using the technology could be differentiated >>> from an (insecure) software s

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Jon Ciesla
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:01:45AM +0100, Camilo Mesias wrote: >> I am still struggling to see real applications for this. I don't know >> how a networked system using the technology could be differentiated >> from an (insecure) software simulation of the same from a remote >> viewer's perspecti

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/24/2011 05:38 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > His point is rather obvious really not sure why you're picking on him > - many may be unfamiliar with this and he spent time finding out and > sharing what others, who have thought about this topic, have to say. I am not picking on anyone but quot

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/24/2011 04:07 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/24/2011 12:55 PM, JB wrote: >> JB gmail.com> writes: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing >> >> TC is controversial because it is technically possible not just to secure the >> hardware for its owner, but also to secure against

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew Haley
What I don't understand is why this feature requires a binary blob. Surely whatever northbridge code is required can be free software, Is this just security through obscurity? Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2011/6/24 Tomas Mraz : > Yes, I completely agree. What Gregory tries to emphasis here - as I > understand it, of course he might have a different intention - is purely > politics and I do not think, that Fedora should involve in political > decisions in one way or another. Frankly, I view the DRM

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Alexander Boström
fre 2011-06-24 klockan 10:01 +0100 skrev Camilo Mesias: > I am still struggling to see real applications for this. I don't know > how a networked system using the technology could be differentiated > from an (insecure) software simulation of the same from a remote > viewer's perspective. Add anot

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:10 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > If trusted boot in fedora is widely deployed, then $random_things may > > demand I use a particular fedora kernel in order to access them. > > I can't see how it would make any

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Camilo Mesias wrote: > I don't know > how a networked system using the technology could be differentiated > from an (insecure) software simulation of the same from a remote > viewer's perspective. The attestation is signed by a key that cannot be extracted from th

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:01:45AM +0100, Camilo Mesias wrote: > I am still struggling to see real applications for this. I don't know > how a networked system using the technology could be differentiated > from an (insecure) software simulation of the same from a remote > viewer's perspective. Als

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > If trusted boot in fedora is widely deployed, then $random_things may > demand I use a particular fedora kernel in order to access them. I can't see how it would make any difference whether Fedora supports the feature or not - after all,

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Camilo Mesias
I am still struggling to see real applications for this. I don't know how a networked system using the technology could be differentiated from an (insecure) software simulation of the same from a remote viewer's perspective. Also I don't see how it would be used in the world of servers where virtua

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > If you have *specific* concerns,  let's hear those.  You seem to just > quoting parts of a public wiki page anyone can read.  I don't see the > point of that If trusted boot in fedora is widely deployed, then $random_things may demand I use

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/24/2011 12:55 PM, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing > > TC is controversial because it is technically possible not just to secure the > hardware for its owner, but also to secure against its owner. Such controversy > has led opponents of tru

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing TC is controversial because it is technically possible not just to secure the hardware for its owner, but also to secure against its owner. Such controversy has led opponents of trusted computing, such as Richard Stallman, to r

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-23 Thread Jon Ciesla
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:30 PM, JB wrote: >> Miloslav Trmač volny.cz> writes: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:21 PM, JB gmail.com> wrote: >>> ... >>> > Will the TPM allow a third party remote access to the machine ? >>> Absolutely not. >> >> You are wrong here. >> >> http://en.wikipedi

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-23 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:30 PM, JB wrote: > Miloslav Trmač volny.cz> writes: > >> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:21 PM, JB gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >> > Will the TPM allow a third party remote access to the machine ? >> Absolutely not. > > You are wrong here. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trus

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-23 Thread Jon Ciesla
> Miloslav Trmač volny.cz> writes: > >> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:21 PM, JB gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >> > Will the TPM allow a third party remote access to the machine ? >> Absolutely not. > > You are wrong here. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module > "... > Overview > ..

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-23 Thread JB
Miloslav Trmač volny.cz> writes: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:21 PM, JB gmail.com> wrote: > ... > > Will the TPM allow a third party remote access to the machine ? > Absolutely not. You are wrong here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module "... Overview ... It also includes c

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-23 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:21 PM, JB wrote: > I have done some inventory on this topic, and have some questions. I'm not really an expert on this... Hopefully someone will correct my mistakes. > Why do you need Trusted Boot mechanism to ensure that identified and origin- > verified Linux kernel is

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-23 Thread JB
Matthew Garrett srcf.ucam.org> writes: > ... > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Trusted_Boot is a proposed > feature for F16. > ... Hi, there will be some posts on Fedora users and testers lists, so please take a look. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-June/400539.htm

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-23 Thread Jon Ciesla
> On 06/22/2011 03:01 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: >> > >>> Outside that, is there any other impact? Does tboot perform any >>> verification of the kernels, and if so how is that configured? Is the >>> expectation that an install configured with TXT will only boot trusted >>> kernels, and if so what mech

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-23 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:55 -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > On 06/22/2011 03:02 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Trusted_Boot is a proposed > > feature for F16. We've traditionally had a hard objection to the > > functionality because it required either the distri

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread Eric Paris
On 06/22/2011 03:20 PM, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 20:02 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Are we going to continue the double grub entries? while I realize that > tboot SHOULD allow non TXT hw to boot properly I also realize that any > differences will be pointed to as a point of con

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread Eric Paris
On 06/22/2011 03:01 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > >> Outside that, is there any other impact? Does tboot perform any >> verification of the kernels, and if so how is that configured? Is the >> expectation that an install configured with TXT will only boot trusted >> kernels, and if so what mechanism is

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread Eric Paris
On 06/22/2011 03:02 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Trusted_Boot is a proposed > feature for F16. We've traditionally had a hard objection to the > functionality because it required either the distribution or downloading > of binary code that ran on the host C

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread James Morris
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Simo Sorce wrote: > > If so, is there a mechanism to disable that functionality, or mark a > > kernel as trusted, so that I could, for example, run a kernel I built > > myself or one from another RPM? > > I would say that if this feature prevents users from creating their own

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/2011 04:57 PM, Camilo Mesias wrote: > I'm curious to know the use case(s) for this technology. > > Does it enable certain types of behaviour that aren't possible currently? > > Would it enable a system running Fedora to interact with other s

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread Camilo Mesias
I'm curious to know the use case(s) for this technology. Does it enable certain types of behaviour that aren't possible currently? Would it enable a system running Fedora to interact with other systems with a greater guarantee about its behaviour or function? Is it just something that system int

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 14:01 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Trusted_Boot is a proposed > > feature for F16. We've traditionally had a hard objection to the > > functionality because it required either the distribution or downloading > > of binary code that ran on

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 20:02 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Trusted_Boot is a proposed > feature for F16. We've traditionally had a hard objection to the > functionality because it required either the distribution or downloading > of binary code that ran on

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread Jon Ciesla
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Trusted_Boot is a proposed > feature for F16. We've traditionally had a hard objection to the > functionality because it required either the distribution or downloading > of binary code that ran on the host CPU, but it seems that there'll > shortly be syste