Re: [PATCH 00/14] EVM

[James Morris]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Mimi Zohar wrote:

> SELinux, Smack, Capabilities, and IMA all use extended attributes. The
> purpose of EVM is to detect offline tampering of these security extended
> attributes.

One issue mentioned to me off-list is that if EVM is only protecting 
against offline attacks, why not just encrypt the entire volume ?

This would provide confidentiality and integrity protection for all data 
and metadata, rather than just integrity for xattr metadata.


- James
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