Feb. 11, 2015
7:01 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:29 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@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.