Thanks John and Janusz for the prompt response.

Can you expand a little on the 'constant block level checks' comment?
I'm interested to learn more if you would entertain that request please?

Warm regards
Tom.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Whiteman, John L
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 4:39 PM
> To: Counihan, Tom; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Integrity protection mechanism for the root file system?
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I was asked recently to re-scope IMA/EVM.  Prior to that there were
> concerns
> about performance degradation particularly caused by constant block level
> checks.  There was talk about using it for a single system partition, but
> this still may be unacceptable for low end processors.  There is code
> checked in upstream already, but not integrated.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Counihan, Tom
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:58 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Dev] Integrity protection mechanism for the root file system?
> 
> Folks,
> 
> While this https://bugs.tizen.org/jira/browse/TC-375  was raised and
> disposition a year ago, I did observe some presentations subsequently;
> https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/integrity_protection_solu
> tion
> s_for_embedded_systems/attachments/slides/414/export/events/attachm
> ents/inte
> grity_protection_solutions_for_embedded_systems/slides/414/Integrity_Pr
> otect
> ion_For_Embedded_Systems_FOSDEM_2014.pdf
> 
> And then I stumbled here:
> https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Security:IntegrityMeasurement
> 
> I'd like to understand the current day status. How progressed is this?
> It hit the wiki April/may this year, and I now found a mail on tizen dev
> from  Janusz announcing an intent to focus - but no real response and no
> further update.
> 
> Any insight greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Warm Regards
> Tom.
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