* Kernel assisted keychain? @ 2019-12-20 16:13 Jeffrey Walton 2019-12-23 14:47 ` Yann Droneaud 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Jeffrey Walton @ 2019-12-20 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies 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. Jeff _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Kernel assisted keychain? 2019-12-20 16:13 Kernel assisted keychain? Jeffrey Walton @ 2019-12-23 14:47 ` Yann Droneaud 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Yann Droneaud @ 2019-12-23 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: noloader, kernelnewbies 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 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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