Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 4 authors, 2021-02-04

Re: Migration to trusted keys: sealing user-provided key?

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: 2021-02-01 11:37:52
Also in: keyrings, linux-integrity, lkml

Jan Lübbe [off-list ref] wrote:
... But at this point, you can still do 'keyctl read' on that key, exposing
the key material to user space.
I wonder if it would help to provide a keyctl function to mark a key as being
permanently unreadable - so that it overrides the READ permission bit.

Alternatively, you can disable READ and SETATTR permission - but that then
prevents you from removing other perms if you want to :-/

David
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