Re: IMA gadgets

[Johannes Segitz <jsegitz () suse de>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 09:16:20PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> So in short, I don't really see how IMA signatures shipped as part of
> all distribution packages, on all files, can provide value beyond that
> of the hash that the already contain.

It provides "the customer is happy" value. From a security POV it doesn't
help much (on a normal Linux system, can be different if you really strip
it down). But AMSI also doesn't help and people are still keen on enabling
it, despite bypasses being available all the time. Same will happen for
IMA.

Johannes
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