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Re: FWIW: sysrestrict



On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 12:31:01PM +0930, LYMN wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 08:42:49PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > 
> > The difference is that correctly configured veriexec is a system-wide
> > property. It doesn't matter if you can exec something, you don't get to
> > execute binaries that weren't signed. 
> > 
> 
> Technically,  veriexec only runs files that have a valid fingerprint.
> We don't, currently, have signing but that would be useful and probably
> could be done now.  One thing that does seem to get overlooked a lot is

That would require an RSA implementation in the kernel, plus some PKCS bits.

I have code around here somewhere...

Thor


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