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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst index 7d7c7c8a545c..a8667a777490 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst @@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ trusted userspace bits. This facility uses X.509 ITU-T standard certificates to encode the public keys involved. The signatures are not themselves encoded in any industrial standard -type. The facility currently only supports the RSA public key encryption -standard (though it is pluggable and permits others to be used). The possible -hash algorithms that can be used are SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and -SHA-512 (the algorithm is selected by data in the signature). +type. The built-in facility currently only supports the RSA & NIST P-384 ECDSA +public key signing standard (though it is pluggable and permits others to be +used). The possible hash algorithms that can be used are SHA-2 and SHA-3 of +sizes 256, 384, and 512 (the algorithm is selected by data in the signature). ========================== @@ -81,11 +81,12 @@ This has a number of options available: sign the modules with: =============================== ========================================== - ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA1`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-1` - ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA224`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-224` ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA256`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-256` ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA384`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-384` ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA512`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA-512` + ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA3_256`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA3-256` + ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA3_384`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA3-384` + ``CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA3_512`` :menuselection:`Sign modules with SHA3-512` =============================== ========================================== The algorithm selected here will also be built into the kernel (rather @@ -145,6 +146,10 @@ into vmlinux) using parameters in the:: file (which is also generated if it does not already exist). +One can select between RSA (``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_RSA``) and ECDSA +(``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_ECDSA``) to generate either RSA 4k or NIST +P-384 keypair. + It is strongly recommended that you provide your own x509.genkey file. Most notably, in the x509.genkey file, the req_distinguished_name section @@ -266,7 +271,7 @@ for which it has a public key. Otherwise, it will also load modules that are unsigned. Any module for which the kernel has a key, but which proves to have a signature mismatch will not be permitted to load. -Any module that has an unparseable signature will be rejected. +Any module that has an unparsable signature will be rejected. ========================================= |