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SubjectRe: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?
On 15-05-19 11:37:49, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 07:36 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >
> > What integrity stuff? IIRC dm-verity doesn't use asymmetric crypto at
> > all. IMA probably does, though.
>
> IMA can appraise file integrity based on either hashes or signatures.
> The difference being that In addition to file integrity, signatures
> provides file provenance. Going forward we'd like to see software come
> with the associated file signatures.

I second this one. There's plenty of situations where integrity isn't enough
and authenticity is needed.


cheers,
Petko


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