From: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
To: noloader@gmail.com, kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel assisted keychain?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:47:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36d998e858b24bb67324f974b5de94572f306ee6.camel@opteya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8kmeTTXS0_fOJ1V_Zm899Y7ZWGpeqH5S47QsqkYz9FNQA@mail.gmail.com>
Le vendredi 20 décembre 2019 à 11:13 -0500, Jeffrey Walton a écrit :
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Does the kernel have a Keychain API to save secrets locally? I'm
> specifically looking for kernel assistance and a API to use across
> different OSes.
>
AFAIK kernel doens't "save secrets locally" (in the sense those secrets
are available across reboot), you have to use higher level API such as
https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec/ with
implementation such as https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libsecret
But kernel can hold secrets with the keyring API
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/keyrings.7.html
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/keys.txt
Regards.
--
Yann Droneaud
OPTEYA
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2019-12-20 16:13 Kernel assisted keychain? Jeffrey Walton
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