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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-05-11 11:56:56 +0200
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-05-11 11:56:56 +0200
commitf0894940aed13b21f363a411c7ec57358827ad87 (patch)
tree43b1fcfc6e9ff2912943b2b2789559b36e7a192d
parentKEYS: Use the compat keyctl() syscall wrapper on Sparc64 for Sparc32 compat (diff)
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KEYS: Move the key config into security/keys/Kconfig
Move the key config into security/keys/Kconfig as there are going to be a lot of key-related options. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--security/Kconfig68
-rw-r--r--security/keys/Kconfig71
2 files changed, 72 insertions, 67 deletions
diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
index ccc61f8006b2..e9c6ac724fef 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -4,73 +4,7 @@
menu "Security options"
-config KEYS
- bool "Enable access key retention support"
- help
- This option provides support for retaining authentication tokens and
- access keys in the kernel.
-
- It also includes provision of methods by which such keys might be
- associated with a process so that network filesystems, encryption
- support and the like can find them.
-
- Furthermore, a special type of key is available that acts as keyring:
- a searchable sequence of keys. Each process is equipped with access
- to five standard keyrings: UID-specific, GID-specific, session,
- process and thread.
-
- If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
-
-config TRUSTED_KEYS
- tristate "TRUSTED KEYS"
- depends on KEYS && TCG_TPM
- select CRYPTO
- select CRYPTO_HMAC
- select CRYPTO_SHA1
- help
- This option provides support for creating, sealing, and unsealing
- keys in the kernel. Trusted keys are random number symmetric keys,
- generated and RSA-sealed by the TPM. The TPM only unseals the keys,
- if the boot PCRs and other criteria match. Userspace will only ever
- see encrypted blobs.
-
- If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
-
-config ENCRYPTED_KEYS
- tristate "ENCRYPTED KEYS"
- depends on KEYS
- select CRYPTO
- select CRYPTO_HMAC
- select CRYPTO_AES
- select CRYPTO_CBC
- select CRYPTO_SHA256
- select CRYPTO_RNG
- help
- This option provides support for create/encrypting/decrypting keys
- in the kernel. Encrypted keys are kernel generated random numbers,
- which are encrypted/decrypted with a 'master' symmetric key. The
- 'master' key can be either a trusted-key or user-key type.
- Userspace only ever sees/stores encrypted blobs.
-
- If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
-
-config KEYS_DEBUG_PROC_KEYS
- bool "Enable the /proc/keys file by which keys may be viewed"
- depends on KEYS
- help
- This option turns on support for the /proc/keys file - through which
- can be listed all the keys on the system that are viewable by the
- reading process.
-
- The only keys included in the list are those that grant View
- permission to the reading process whether or not it possesses them.
- Note that LSM security checks are still performed, and may further
- filter out keys that the current process is not authorised to view.
-
- Only key attributes are listed here; key payloads are not included in
- the resulting table.
-
- If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+source security/keys/Kconfig
config SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT
bool "Restrict unprivileged access to the kernel syslog"
diff --git a/security/keys/Kconfig b/security/keys/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a90d6d300dbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/security/keys/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#
+# Key management configuration
+#
+
+config KEYS
+ bool "Enable access key retention support"
+ help
+ This option provides support for retaining authentication tokens and
+ access keys in the kernel.
+
+ It also includes provision of methods by which such keys might be
+ associated with a process so that network filesystems, encryption
+ support and the like can find them.
+
+ Furthermore, a special type of key is available that acts as keyring:
+ a searchable sequence of keys. Each process is equipped with access
+ to five standard keyrings: UID-specific, GID-specific, session,
+ process and thread.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+
+config TRUSTED_KEYS
+ tristate "TRUSTED KEYS"
+ depends on KEYS && TCG_TPM
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_HMAC
+ select CRYPTO_SHA1
+ help
+ This option provides support for creating, sealing, and unsealing
+ keys in the kernel. Trusted keys are random number symmetric keys,
+ generated and RSA-sealed by the TPM. The TPM only unseals the keys,
+ if the boot PCRs and other criteria match. Userspace will only ever
+ see encrypted blobs.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+
+config ENCRYPTED_KEYS
+ tristate "ENCRYPTED KEYS"
+ depends on KEYS
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_HMAC
+ select CRYPTO_AES
+ select CRYPTO_CBC
+ select CRYPTO_SHA256
+ select CRYPTO_RNG
+ help
+ This option provides support for create/encrypting/decrypting keys
+ in the kernel. Encrypted keys are kernel generated random numbers,
+ which are encrypted/decrypted with a 'master' symmetric key. The
+ 'master' key can be either a trusted-key or user-key type.
+ Userspace only ever sees/stores encrypted blobs.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+
+config KEYS_DEBUG_PROC_KEYS
+ bool "Enable the /proc/keys file by which keys may be viewed"
+ depends on KEYS
+ help
+ This option turns on support for the /proc/keys file - through which
+ can be listed all the keys on the system that are viewable by the
+ reading process.
+
+ The only keys included in the list are those that grant View
+ permission to the reading process whether or not it possesses them.
+ Note that LSM security checks are still performed, and may further
+ filter out keys that the current process is not authorised to view.
+
+ Only key attributes are listed here; key payloads are not included in
+ the resulting table.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.