linux/Documentation/security/keys
Yael Tzur cd3bc044af KEYS: encrypted: Instantiate key with user-provided decrypted data
For availability and performance reasons master keys often need to be
released outside of a Key Management Service (KMS) to clients. It
would be beneficial to provide a mechanism where the
wrapping/unwrapping of data encryption keys (DEKs) is not dependent
on a remote call at runtime yet security is not (or only minimally)
compromised. Master keys could be securely stored in the Kernel and
be used to wrap/unwrap keys from Userspace.

The encrypted.c class supports instantiation of encrypted keys with
either an already-encrypted key material, or by generating new key
material based on random numbers. This patch defines a new datablob
format: [<format>] <master-key name> <decrypted data length>
<decrypted data> that allows to inject and encrypt user-provided
decrypted data. The decrypted data must be hex-ascii encoded.

Signed-off-by: Yael Tzur <yaelt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2022-02-21 19:47:45 -05:00
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core.rst watch_queue: Drop references to /dev/watch_queue 2021-01-21 16:16:08 +00:00
ecryptfs.rst doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs 2018-09-20 11:11:48 -06:00
index.rst doc: ReSTify keys-trusted-encrypted.txt 2017-05-18 10:33:56 -06:00
request-key.rst Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
trusted-encrypted.rst KEYS: encrypted: Instantiate key with user-provided decrypted data 2022-02-21 19:47:45 -05:00