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authorPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>2018-10-11 20:21:11 +0200
committerPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>2020-07-03 18:16:01 +0200
commit993aec27aa39aa90f89f227d8f82cc1f8062386e (patch)
treea1b021a9408aec1bf732fb9904c69073e13353c0 /exec-vary.c
parent4abf70a661a5df3886ac9d7c19c3617fa92b922a (diff)
crypto: Add tls-cipher-suites object
On the host OS, various aspects of TLS operation are configurable. In particular it is possible for the sysadmin to control the TLS cipher/protocol algorithms that applications are permitted to use. * Any given crypto library has a built-in default priority list defined by the distro maintainer of the library package (or by upstream). * The "crypto-policies" RPM (or equivalent host OS package) provides a config file such as "/etc/crypto-policies/config", where the sysadmin can set a high level (library-independent) policy. The "update-crypto-policies --set" command (or equivalent) is used to translate the global policy to individual library representations, producing files such as "/etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/*.config". The generated files, if present, are loaded by the various crypto libraries to override their own built-in defaults. For example, the GNUTLS library may read "/etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/gnutls.config". * A management application (or the QEMU user) may overide the system-wide crypto-policies config via their own config, if they need to diverge from the former. Thus the priority order is "QEMU user config" > "crypto-policies system config" > "library built-in config". Introduce the "tls-cipher-suites" object for exposing the ordered list of permitted TLS cipher suites from the host side to the guest firmware, via fw_cfg. The list is represented as an array of bytes. The priority at which the host-side policy is retrieved is given by the "priority" property of the new object type. For example, "priority=@SYSTEM" may be used to refer to "/etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/gnutls.config" (given that QEMU uses GNUTLS). The firmware uses the IANA_TLS_CIPHER array for configuring guest-side TLS, for example in UEFI HTTPS Boot. [Description from Daniel P. Berrangé, edited by Laszlo Ersek.] Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200623172726.21040-2-philmd@redhat.com>
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