Fwd: Fwd: Getting path in inode_permission
noyb noybee
afzalulh at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 14:01:45 EST 2015
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:29 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:42:50 +0530, noyb noybee said:
> You missed the point. How does the process *securely* get the passphrase
> that will be passed into the syscall? (Hint - a keystroke logger is only
> the *start* of your problems. Think about why the kernel module signing
> code uses public-key crypto instead of symmetric private keys...)
I was planning that the calling process would call the new system call
which would return a pseudo-random key that is used as the
pass-phrase.
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