Re: AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - FreeBSD Status?

"Clay Daniels Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.virtualization,gmane.os.freebsd.current,gmane.os.freebsd.security.general
Message-ID <CAGLDxTWm-u56ZH33=cmvC986XF-eya_Vpjh8tDaHZL5Ojt=iLg@mail.gmail.com>
Simon, please do elaborate more on your implementation. I suspect you are
talking about libsecureboot? I have played with the generation of certs
with OpenSSL & LibreSSL, but libsecureboot seems to take a different
approach. Please tell us more.

Clay

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 1:52 PM Simon J. Gerraty via freebsd-security <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Tomasz CEDRO <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > would be really nice also to get UEFI BOOT compatible with SECURE BOOT
> :-)
>
> Unless you are using your own BIOS, the above means getting Microsoft
> to sign boot1.efi or similar. Shims that simply work around lack of
> acceptible signature don't help.
>
> That would need to then verify loader.efi - which can be built to
> to verify all the modules and kernel.
>
> In my implementation (uses the non efi loader) trust anchors are
> embedded in loader but there is code in current to lookup trust anchors
> in /efi I think which would be more generally useful - I've not looked
> at the attack vectors that introduces though.
>
> --sjg
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