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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-02-10 09:32:30 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-02-10 09:32:30 -0800 |
| commit | b63c90720348578631cda74285958c3ad3169ce9 (patch) | |
| tree | e79503d20dda1e113f6b369e46b4235a9b289694 /Documentation | |
| parent | 958f7fb68c6be4e2d9dcb5bf31bfe746f6744aa3 (diff) | |
| parent | 965e9a2cf23b066d8bdeb690dff9cd7089c5f667 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'keys-next-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull keys update from David Howells:
"This adds support for ML-DSA signatures in X.509 certificates and
PKCS#7/CMS messages, thereby allowing this algorithm to be used for
signing modules, kexec'able binaries, wifi regulatory data, etc..
This requires OpenSSL-3.5 at a minimum and preferably OpenSSL-4 (so
that it can avoid the use of CMS signedAttrs - but that version is not
cut yet). certs/Kconfig does a check to hide the signing options if
OpenSSL does not list the algorithm as being available"
* tag 'keys-next-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
pkcs7: Change a pr_warn() to pr_warn_once()
pkcs7: Allow authenticatedAttributes for ML-DSA
modsign: Enable ML-DSA module signing
pkcs7, x509: Add ML-DSA support
pkcs7: Allow the signing algo to do whatever digestion it wants itself
pkcs7, x509: Rename ->digest to ->m
x509: Separately calculate sha256 for blacklist
crypto: Add ML-DSA crypto_sig support
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst index a8667a777490..7f2f127dc76f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst @@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ 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 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). +type. The built-in facility currently only supports the RSA, NIST P-384 ECDSA +and NIST FIPS-204 ML-DSA public key signing standards (though it is pluggable +and permits others to be used). For RSA and ECDSA, 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); ML-DSA does its own hashing, +but is allowed to be used with a SHA512 hash for signed attributes. ========================== @@ -146,9 +148,9 @@ 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. +One can select between RSA (``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_RSA``), ECDSA +(``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_ECDSA``) and ML-DSA (``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_MLDSA_*``) to +generate an RSA 4k, a NIST P-384 keypair or an ML-DSA 44, 65 or 87 keypair. It is strongly recommended that you provide your own x509.genkey file. |
