> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nka...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2021 10:29 AM
[...] > From one of the patches: > > It accomplishes this task by storing reference values coming from > software vendors and by reporting whether or not the > digest of file content or metadata calculated by IMA (or EVM) is found > among those values. > > That has no use but digital rights management. Hi Nico I give some clarifications. The kernel won't enforce any policy unless you define it. Without loading a policy, there will be no change in your user experience. I mentioned in the patches software vendors, as they would be the primary source of digest lists, easy to obtain. However, as an advanced user, you would be able to effectively use DIGLIM, even if you build your OS from scratch, by creating a digest list of the binaries you built. This will be possible because you will have the ability to load your own GPG (or RSA) keys to the kernel to verify data source authenticity of the digest lists. This applies if you want to enforce an IMA appraisal policy, which denies access to the files if file verification fails. If you want to enforce an IMA measurement policy instead, access to the files will be always granted, regardless of whether the digest lists are signed or not. IMA, in this case, will simply record the execution of unknown files, in addition to the digest lists you generated. The IMA measurement list remains in your system, unless you decide that your system should be remotely attested by a remote verifier. Roberto HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Duesseldorf GmbH, HRB 56063 Managing Director: Li Peng, Zhong Ronghua _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
