Re: IMA and PQC

Stefan Berger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.keyrings,org.kernel.vger.linux-crypto,org.kernel.vger.linux-integrity,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-modules
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 2/3/26 8:32 AM, Coiby Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 09:31:26PM +0100, Johannes Wiesböck wrote:
>> Hi all,
> 
> Hi Johannes,
> 
>>
>> we conducted an evaluation regarding PQC use in IMA last year (see [1] 
>> for all
>> details) where we also considered the interplay of different PQC 
>> signatures and
>> file systems (ext4, btrfs, XFS, f2fs).
> 
> Thanks for sharing this comprehensive study! There are many nuances in
> this research paper!
> 
>>
>> Coiby Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> According to my experiments done so far, for verification speed,
>>> ML-DSA-65 is consistently faster than ECDSA P-384 which is used by
>>> current CentOS/RHEL to sign files in a package.
>>
>> Regarding performance, similar to Coiby, we found that all variants of 
>> ML-DSA
>> consistently outperformed ECDSA P-256.
> 
> Glad to know ML-DSA is also faster than ECDSA P-256!

To avoid duplicate work: Is either one of you planning on writing 
patches for IMA to use ML-DSA and convert the current ML-DSA to also 
support HashML? I had done the work on this before and could dig out the 
patches again...

    Stefan
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