Re: [RFC PATCH 12/12] IMA: Use the the system trusted keyrings instead of .ima_mok [ver #3]

[Mimi Zohar]

On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 15:06 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The three choice options I implemented don't exactly provide new features.
> > Firstly:
> > 
> > 	config IMA_LOAD_X509
> > 
> > allow keys to be loaded in at compile time,
> 
> Ah - I think I'm labouring under a slight misapprehension here.  IMA_LOAD_X509
> doesn't load keys at compile time, but rather the kernel loads a file by name
> when booting, right?

Right, all certificates must be signed by a key on the builtin (or
secondary keyring) before being added to the IMA keyring.   Similarly,
dracut (modules/98integrity/ and systemd (ima-setup.c) have support for
loading signed certificates on the IMA keyring.

Mimi