ima-evm-utils/README
Dmitry Kasatkin 5be54eaca4 Update README
README updated.
Module signing info has been removed. Module signing is done now in kernel
source tree and uses appended signatures. No need to create sig files or
set extended attributes. Information about test scripts has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
2012-09-10 15:37:40 +03:00

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ima-evm-utils - IMA/EVM signing utility
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Contents:
1. Key generation
2. Initialization
3. Signing
Key generation
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Generate private key in plain text format
$ openssl genrsa -out privkey_evm.pem 1024
Generate encrypted private key
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out privkey_evm.pem 1024
Make encrypted private key from unencrypted
$ openssl rsa -in /etc/keys/privkey_evm.pem -out privkey_evm_enc.pem -des3
Get public key
$ openssl rsa -pubout -in privkey_evm.pem -out pubkey_evm.pem
Copy keys to /etc/keys
$ cp pubkey_evm.pem /etc/keys
$ scp pubkey_evm.pem target:/etc/keys
Initialization
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IMA/EVM initialization should be normally done from initial RAM file system
before mounting root filesystem.
Here is an example script /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/ima.sh
# import EVM HMAC key
keyctl clear @u
keyctl add user kmk "testing123" @u
keyctl add encrypted evm-key "load `cat /etc/keys/evm-key`" @u
# import IMA public key
ima_id=`keyctl newring _ima @u`
evmctl import /etc/keys/pubkey_evm.pem $ima_id
# import EVM public key
evm_id=`keyctl newring _evm @u`
evmctl import /etc/keys/pubkey_evm.pem $evm_id
# enable EVM
echo "1" > /sys/kernel/security/evm
Signing
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Sign file with EVM signature and use hash value for IMA - common case
$ evmctl sign --imahash test.txt
Sign file with both IMA and EVM signatures - for immutable files
$ evmctl sign --imasig test.txt
Label whole filesystem with EVM signatures
$ find / \( -fstype rootfs -o -fstype ext4 \) -exec evmctl sign --imahash '{}' \;
Label filesystem in fix mode - kernel sets correct values to IMA and EVM xattrs
$ find / \( -fstype rootfs -o -fstype ext4 \) -exec sh -c "< '{}'" \;