On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:22 PM Brian C. Lane <b...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 01:05:01PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Signed_RPM_Contents
> >
> > Note that this change was submitted after the deadline, but since it can
> be
> > shipped in an complete state, I am still processing it for Fedora 34.
> >
> >
> > == Summary ==
> > We want to add signatures to individual files that are part of shipped
> RPMs.
> > These signatures will use the Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement
> > Architecture) scheme, which means they can be used to enforce runtime
> > policies to ensure execution of only trusted files.
>
> Who is going to use this feature? My guess is a very limited set of
> users, so it seems unfair to dramatically increase the size of their
> downloads and install footprint to support something they don't use.
> Can't they be shipped on the side? An rpm of signatures that's
> optionally installed would be more user friendly.
>
> Also, I (being unfamiliar with IMA), don't see how this is any better
> than trusting the file hash signed by the fedora keys that we currently
> have.
>
> Brian
>

I work on an upstream security project (https://keylime.dev), we are
packaged in Fedora that would hugely benefit from this.

In turn our users will be able to more easily manage the remote attestation
of a Fedora system (as Fedora is our target environment).


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