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diff --git a/Documentation/digsig.txt b/Documentation/digsig.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3f682889068b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/digsig.txt @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +Digital Signature Verification API + +CONTENTS + +1. Introduction +2. API +3. User-space utilities + + +1. Introduction + +Digital signature verification API provides a method to verify digital signature. +Currently digital signatures are used by the IMA/EVM integrity protection subsystem. + +Digital signature verification is implemented using cut-down kernel port of +GnuPG multi-precision integers (MPI) library. The kernel port provides +memory allocation errors handling, has been refactored according to kernel +coding style, and checkpatch.pl reported errors and warnings have been fixed. + +Public key and signature consist of header and MPIs. + +struct pubkey_hdr { + uint8_t version; /* key format version */ + time_t timestamp; /* key made, always 0 for now */ + uint8_t algo; + uint8_t nmpi; + char mpi[0]; +} __packed; + +struct signature_hdr { + uint8_t version; /* signature format version */ + time_t timestamp; /* signature made */ + uint8_t algo; + uint8_t hash; + uint8_t keyid[8]; + uint8_t nmpi; + char mpi[0]; +} __packed; + +keyid equals to SHA1[12-19] over the total key content. +Signature header is used as an input to generate a signature. +Such approach insures that key or signature header could not be changed. +It protects timestamp from been changed and can be used for rollback +protection. + +2. API + +API currently includes only 1 function: + + digsig_verify() - digital signature verification with public key + + +/** + * digsig_verify() - digital signature verification with public key + * @keyring: keyring to search key in + * @sig: digital signature + * @sigen: length of the signature + * @data: data + * @datalen: length of the data + * @return: 0 on success, -EINVAL otherwise + * + * Verifies data integrity against digital signature. + * Currently only RSA is supported. + * Normally hash of the content is used as a data for this function. + * + */ +int digsig_verify(struct key *keyring, const char *sig, int siglen, + const char *data, int datalen); + +3. User-space utilities + +The signing and key management utilities evm-utils provide functionality +to generate signatures, to load keys into the kernel keyring. +Keys can be in PEM or converted to the kernel format. +When the key is added to the kernel keyring, the keyid defines the name +of the key: 5D2B05FC633EE3E8 in the example bellow. + +Here is example output of the keyctl utility. + +$ keyctl show +Session Keyring + -3 --alswrv 0 0 keyring: _ses +603976250 --alswrv 0 -1 \_ keyring: _uid.0 +817777377 --alswrv 0 0 \_ user: kmk +891974900 --alswrv 0 0 \_ encrypted: evm-key +170323636 --alswrv 0 0 \_ keyring: _module +548221616 --alswrv 0 0 \_ keyring: _ima +128198054 --alswrv 0 0 \_ keyring: _evm + +$ keyctl list 128198054 +1 key in keyring: +620789745: --alswrv 0 0 user: 5D2B05FC633EE3E8 + + +Dmitry Kasatkin +06.10.2011 |