Re: Signature verification in GRUB

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 10.10.2012 00:54, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:

> Hi GRUB list,
> 
> I'm working on adding verified boot / Secure Boot support to my
> company's OS-level product (MokaFive BareMetal). As background, we use
> whole-image updates to help with reliable unattended upgrades and for
> debugging; an upgrade is delivered as a new ISO image, and we have GRUB
> configuration to loop-mount the ISO and load further configuration, a
> kernel, and an initrd.
> 
> First, does GRUB has a mechanism for me to validate a digitally-signed
> file of some sort? This could be e.g. a PGP-signed file or something
> from `openssl dgst -sign`. I see that GRUB has all the relevant crypto
> primitives to do this, but I can't find a command to invoke them. (As
> far as I can tell, gcrypt is only used for PBKDF2 and cryptodisk support?)
> 

I have some code dating from about a year ago but because of my current
personal situation it's put on hold for some time.

> If not, I'd like to add a command to verify a signature on a file, or
> possibly to verify a signature on a GRUB configuration file and execute
> it if it validates. Does this seem like a reasonable thing to add?
> 
> Secondarily, I'm curious if anyone has done work towards porting verity
> or some similar signed (but not encrypted) disk support to GRUB. Since
> we're already planning on using dm-verity once the kernel is booted, I
> think the simplest solution will be to have a signature on the verity
> root hash, mount the ISO using verity, and load the GRUB configuration /
> kernel / initrd from the resulting block device. Does this support exist
> already? (I've also asked this question on the dm-crypt list.)
> 

Is there some doc on dm-verify? It may be interesting.

> Finally, if there's an easier way to do verified boot with GRUB or some
> existing effort along these lines that I should be helping out with, let
> me know.
> 
> Thanks,



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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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