Commit fc3225fd authored by Dimitri John Ledkov's avatar Dimitri John Ledkov Committed by Herbert Xu

module: Do not offer sha224 for built-in module signing

sha224 does not provide enough security against collision attacks
relative to the default keys used for signing (RSA 4k & P-384). Also
sha224 never became popular, as sha256 got widely adopter ahead of
sha224 being introduced.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
parent c1d760a4
......@@ -236,10 +236,6 @@ choice
possible to load a signed module containing the algorithm to check
the signature on that module.
config MODULE_SIG_SHA224
bool "Sign modules with SHA-224"
select CRYPTO_SHA256
config MODULE_SIG_SHA256
bool "Sign modules with SHA-256"
select CRYPTO_SHA256
......@@ -257,7 +253,6 @@ endchoice
config MODULE_SIG_HASH
string
depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG
default "sha224" if MODULE_SIG_SHA224
default "sha256" if MODULE_SIG_SHA256
default "sha384" if MODULE_SIG_SHA384
default "sha512" if MODULE_SIG_SHA512
......
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