Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:10:48 -0400
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
        horms@verge.net.au, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
        linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Kdump with signed images
Message-ID: <20121025141048.GD9377@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 02:10:01AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:

[..]
> IMA-appraisal verifies the integrity of file data, while EVM verifies
> the integrity of the file metadata, such as LSM and IMA-appraisal
> labels.  Both 'security.ima' and 'security.evm' can contain digital
> signatures.

But the private key for creating these digital signature needs to be
on the target system?

Thanks
Vivek
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