From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_NEOMUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6883C31E46 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5D1208CA for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2408443AbfFLNkK (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:40:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:9954 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2407111AbfFLNkK (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:40:10 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5A358667E; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ws.net.home (unknown [10.40.205.47]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F12B039B9; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:40:05 +0200 From: Karel Zak To: "Jakowski, Andrzej" Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC] utility for SED management Message-ID: <20190612134005.cb7m2qhgf2aolrf6@ws.net.home> References: <548EA37F71F6AC4BB746F459732504FF7F1810E3@FMSMSX119.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <548EA37F71F6AC4BB746F459732504FF7F1810E3@FMSMSX119.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716-1584-710bcd X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.26]); Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: util-linux@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 06:30:51AM +0000, Jakowski, Andrzej wrote: > We have built prototype code covering these functionalities and now we would > like to productize it. We are looking for the right place to publish our SW, > considering util-linux project as one of the options. The SW will likely > consist of: > * Libsed - shared object exposing programmatic interface for security > management (Opal) of disk > * Sedcli - command line utility covering both client and data center flows. > Sedcli will use libsed for interaction with the drive, libkmip for > interaction with OASIS KMIP based key manager and tpm2-tss to interact with > TPM2 key manager > * Udev rules - will be used to invoke sedcli to auto-provision or auto-unlock > when new device is added to the OS (e.g. hot insert) > * System.d scripts - will be used to invoke sedcli when key needs to be > retrieved from network attached key manager > * Config file - will define policies for example on which disk should be > security managed or not > > We would like to contribute that SW into util-linux project. What do you think > about adding this SW into util-linux? >From my point of view (and maybe I'm wrong ;-)) it seems complex enough to keep it as an independent stand-alone project ("sed-utils"). Not sure if it makes sense to push it to generic util-linux package. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com