On 5/15/21 4:44 PM, Daniel Golle wrote:
On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 04:28:58PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
On 5/15/21 1:34 AM, Daniel Golle wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:31:27PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
On 5/14/21 12:17 PM, Paul Spooren wrote:
Hi,

On 5/13/21 1:32 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
Instead of adding all public signature keys from the openwrt-keyring
repository only add the key which is used to sign the master feeds.

If one of the other keys would be compromised this would not affect
users of master snapshot builds.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]>
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Thanks for working on this.

I'm still in favor to include a *openwrt-next* key which becomes the
signing key for the next release. This way a upgrade step between
release branches is possible.

I would prefer to create it closer to the next release.

As far as I know the other keys are not compromised, this is just a
precaution.

I would do similar changes to 21.02 and 19.07 to only add the key which
is used for this specific release.
In case of 19.07 please add 21.02 release keys as well, since it's *the

next key*.

Yes, good idea.

Instead of adding just this single key, should we add all keys of
currently maintained releases like 19.07, 21.02 and master key into all
3 branches?
How about adding keys like that:
19.07: 19.07 + 21.02 keys
21.02: 21.02 + openwrt-next keys
snapshot: snapshot key

The snapshot key stays the same "forever", it shouldn't be included
in
releases.

The signature verification of sysupgrade images is currently not used as
far as I know, so normal we do not need the keys for of other releases.

If the `ucert` package is installed and the env variable
`REQUIRE_IMAGE_SIGNATURE` is set, the images are verified. This should
eventually become the default.

How reliable is this working?

I've been using ucert on many devices for a long time for now.
In order to be more secure, the signed data should be normalized
(ie. sorted and non-relevant data removed), which has not been done
yet. Right now, hash collissions could be constructed by changing
the order of fields and/or adding useless additional data -- however,
that would still mean having to break SHA256.

Generally, to be considered more than just a small extra barrier
or even a security risk, much more review would be needed. See:

https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/ucert.git;a=blob;f=README.md;hb=refs/heads/master#l6


Currently we do not ship ucert by default and this is needed to check the
image signature.

People can, however, install ucert which enabled signature checks
of future sysupgrade. When using 'auc' or 'luci-app-attendedsysupgrade'
for upgrade, all explicitely installed packages are also kept accross
updates, and that can include 'ucert' (which is what I've been doing
for a while now on my local devices)

Ok this is nice.

I tried to check the signature of the 21.02-rc1 release and it failed:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
root@OpenWrt:/tmp# REQUIRE_IMAGE_SIGNATURE=1 sysupgrade -T 
openwrt-21.02.0-rc1-ath79-generic-tplink_tl-wdr4300-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

cert_verify: cannot parse cert
Image check failed.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

With a self build image it works.

It contains "# fake certificate" where I would expect the certificate.

Is this expected?

Yes and no :)
No, because in this way ucert is pretty useless.

Yes, because this is how buildbots are configured to do things at this
point:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=buildbot.git;a=blob;f=phase1/master.cfg;h=a85382ae4fd2ee52d0d102fc90be7f721a2dfe86;hb=HEAD#l986

The goal of ucert is to allow key delegation, as described in the
README.md in ucert.git. Like this we could have builders generate
keys with short lifetime, have them signed by a more protected
instance and have the option to revoke them, if needed.

Ok thank you Daniel for the clarification.

So people are fine with the original patch to only include the master key into the image. I will send seperate patches for 21.02 and 19.07.

Hauke

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