Re: authenticated file systems using HMAC(SHA256)

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On 24.04.20 г. 12:46 ч., Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On 24/04/2020 11:37, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 16.04.20 г. 17:24 ч., David Sterba wrote:
>>> naming of the new checksums (hmac-sha256 or hmac-blake2 should be ok)> - key specification via mount option
>>
>> But the key shouldn't really be visible in /proc/mounts since it's
>> readable by ordinary users, god knows how many more pseudo files there
>> are which can provide the same situation. If the specification of the
>> key is a reference to a loaded key then yes but otherwise I think that's
>> a security risk, unless it's possible to hide passed options from
>> /proc/mounts i.e pass it but make it internal to the filesystem ?
> 
> No the key won't ever be passed to the mount command, only the key id:
> 
> keyctl add logon btrfs:foo 0123456 @u
> mount -t btrfs -o auth_key=btrfs:foo /dev/disk /mnt/point
> 
> So /proc/mounts would only show the key id anyways.
> 
> I think this is fine.
> 

That's fine, yes.



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