Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:22:24PM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think that anybody that really cares about security should be running in custom mode anyway, and should just re-sign anything they want to run.  Custom

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-17 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: Huh?  No, why would a user need to resign the UEFI drivers?  Those live in the BIOS and are only used to get the machine up and running in UEFI space, before UEFI hands the control off to the bootloader it has verified is signed

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:56:52 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:57:06AM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: If you have influence on UEFI secure boot spec, you could suggest that they mandate a UI which lists all boot images known to the EFI boot

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 16.06.2012 01:59, schrieb Greg KH: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:49:01AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.06.2012 09:26, schrieb Michał Górny: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:56:04 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think that anybody that really cares about security should be running in custom mode anyway, and should just re-sign anything they want to run.  Custom mode lets you clear every single key in the system from the vendor on

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Matthew Summers
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? Minor details like, do we have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Ben de Groot
On 15 June 2012 13:24, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 10:33, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:56:04 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.06.2012 09:26, schrieb Michał Górny: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:56:04 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Richard Farina
On 06/15/2012 03:12 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 15 June 2012 13:24, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 10:33, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Richard Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/15/2012 03:49 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.06.2012 09:26, schrieb Michał Górny: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:56:04 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58,

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.06.2012 10:06, schrieb Richard Farina: On 06/15/2012 03:49 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.06.2012 09:26, schrieb Michał Górny: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:56:04 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58,

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.06.2012 09:58, schrieb Richard Farina: On 06/15/2012 03:12 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 15 June 2012 13:24, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 10:33, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? Minor details like, do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to sign our bootloader? is one

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Ben de Groot
On 15 June 2012 15:58, Richard Farina sidh...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/15/2012 03:12 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 15 June 2012 13:24, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 10:33, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.06.2012 12:14, schrieb Rich Freeman: [...] +1 for your assessment so far. I'd be personally interested in pointers to info on what the powers that be do and don't allow with UEFI. I've seen lots of sky-is-falling blog entries and discussion but little in the way of specs, and more

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:37:02AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote Besides, it wouldn't work long. They can blacklist keys. Question... how would blacklisting work on linux machines? Let's say Joe Blow gets a signing key and then passes it around. I can see that if you want to build an

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  Question... how would blacklisting work on linux machines?  Let's say Joe Blow gets a signing key and then passes it around.  I can see that if you want to build an executable (*.exe) to run under Windows, you'll run

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Luca Barbato
On 06/15/2012 06:57 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Greg KH schrieb: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? Minor details like, do

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Luca Barbato
On 06/15/2012 12:14 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: 5. If somebody (perhaps under the umbrella of hardened) wanted to create a Gentoo project around a fully trusted Gentoo I'd be completely supportive of that. It would take work. In the spirit of Gentoo we should allow anybody to build their own

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/15/2012 06:57 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: If you have influence on UEFI secure boot spec, you could suggest that they mandate a UI which lists all boot images known to the EFI boot manager, and the user

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: If we want to try to get serious on 5, we could try to gather the hardened/security people across distributions and setup the whole chain to be parallel and cut deals with OEM to store this trust-chain keys along with MS.

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.06.2012 14:01, schrieb Rich Freeman: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Question... how would blacklisting work on linux machines? Let's say Joe Blow gets a signing key and then passes it around. I can see that if you want to build an executable

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 06/15/2012 06:14 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: 8. I think the bigger issue is with ARM, and I'm not personally clear on what the exact policy is there. That really strikes me as antitrust, but MS might argue that on ARM they have no monopoly (instead we have a bunch of different vendors who

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Matthew Thode
On 06/15/2012 12:24 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 10:26, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty.

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Matthew Thode
On 06/14/2012 11:45 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:28:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues?

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:14:12AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? Minor details like, do we have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:57:06AM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: If you have influence on UEFI secure boot spec, you could suggest that they mandate a UI which lists all boot images known to the EFI boot manager, and the user can easily whitelist both individual loaders and the

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:49:01AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.06.2012 09:26, schrieb Michał Górny: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:56:04 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 04:35:28PM -0500, Matthew Thode wrote: One of these days I'd like to pick your brain about some hardened UEFI interactions I've seen (with pipacs watching). Sure, be glad to talk about this anytime.

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 01:48:05AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 120614 Greg KH wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? Minor details

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 01:03:24PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Minor details like, do we have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread gregkh
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:26:07AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:56:04 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:14:12AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: The whole chain-of-trust is an interesting issue as the UEFI spec does not require it at all, and some people on the UEFI committee have told me that it is not

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Philip Webb
120615 Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 01:48:05AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Does this affect those of us who build our own machines ? Yes, it will be on your new motherboard in a matter of months. I am going to build a new machine some time in the next 12 mth , but it looks as if all I

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 08:41:47PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:14:12AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: The whole chain-of-trust is an interesting issue as the UEFI spec does not require it at all, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? I think it at least makes sense to talk about

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:28:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? Minor details like, do we have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Greg KH schrieb: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? Minor details like, do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to sign our

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Ben de Groot
On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Minor details like, do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to sign our bootloader? is one

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. Minor details like, do we

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 15 June 2012 10:26, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 15 June 2012 10:33, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Minor details like, do we have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
120614 Greg KH wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? Minor details like, do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to sign our

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Eray Aslan
On 2012-06-15 7:56 AM, Greg KH wrote: Distributing a first-stage bootloader blob, that is signed by Microsoft, or someone, seems to be the only way to easily handle this. Fedora agrees: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html Other distros haven't decided yet afaik although there have been some