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Linux kernel hacker and maintainer etc.

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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 5 days ago
not going to comment politically on ongoing wars but as far as ukraine is considered, it's really a force majeure situation against all odds.

drones are the new nuke. ukraine has the most advanced and robust technologies and expertise on the topic. it destines pretty much inevitable win after this hell they've went through.

because nobody is going to let that expertise slip to opponent no matter what is the situation or outcomes in the battlefield.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

I reduced key options for tpm2sh next release to

1. SEC1
2. PKCS#1
3. TpmKey

I mean you can always use other tools (e.g., openssl) do conversions. This simplifies the implementation a lot and makes it transparent, as then I can do all parsing inside the app with rasn. Especially for error flows it's nice that parsing errors come only from rasn.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

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Jarkko Sakkinen

first patch set to make better grounds for trenchboot:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20250929035938.1773341-1-jarkko@kernel.org/T/#t

After this gets to mainline a second series will follow but this already does the absolutely minimal to make the feature feasible.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 11 days ago
i refershed my (c)dynlib knowledge and i got this understanding:

1. cdynlib is great because it enables e.g., audio plugins, which is actually multi-billion market. not like niche edge case such as crypto libraries but necessity for creative work.
2. dynlib is not stable and if I understand correctly both rustc version updates and also parameter configurations can lead to troubles (happy to be corrected on this with factual knowledge as I'm not 100% confident of my understanding).

So yeah to get e.g., hot-patchable crypto and stuff like that dynlib some day needs to stabilize. I've now also learned after discussing with one of ther rustc-team-member that this is actually also a distant goal, but not necessarily a "speculative goal" and that is just great. I do understand the complexity of this problem so that actually was my only expectation even if it took years.

Great that edges will be covered some day...

#rust #rustlang
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I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 12 days ago
I have pretty positive feelings after discussing on a call with Trenchboot patch set authors that we will be able to land it in foreseeable future.

I've kind of felt sympathy for that patch set especially with traumas from SGX patches :-) I offered a solution for nailing issues with early boot TPM access and it reflected, so I think we are now in a steady path for ultimate success.

Patch sets combining cryptography and device I/O are difficult because they end up always being exercise of inserting a cube into a circular hole. Trenchboot is particularly nasty because it intersects with both arch/x86 and TPM driver.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 13 days ago
TPM2 driver was pretty static for multiple years but the volumes and use cases have been steadily increasing so right now many of the key parts are going through iterative rewrite:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/aNQpvQBV43dhS6ad@kernel.org/

One thing I don't actually know about kernel is that can lib/* be used in the early boot code? I'd presume it can but just don't know the tidbit.

It would make whole a lot of sense to create decoupled command/response parsing/building implementation there and use that in the driver and early boot code.

#linux #kernel #tpm
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Jarkko Sakkinen

had my favorite breakfast at morning i.e. karelian pies with egg butter :-) only think that would add up to this would some cold-cured salmon
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@rkaj if you ask that question you already align with my view that infallible only drop is not a great thing.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

fallible drop would be a great addition for rust

I don't really ever use Drop trait for this reason.

#rust #rustlang
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Jarkko Sakkinen

I've started to make some groundwrok to make Trenchboot feasible to land to mainline kernel i.e. introducing builder/parser pattern in order to decouple physical transmission path from logical protocol shenanigans, translating the system to use mainly stack allocations and stuff like that.

Even tho C work, lot's ideas and inspiration come from my recent Rust work.

#linux #tpm #kernel
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Come along for the ride — check out the first sneak peeks of the conference!

Many thanks to Jean-Christophe for the ride (Uweti)

https://youtu.be/GZMHP-NHg3Q?si=NLluSyc3PQ618VMX

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Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information.

https://archive.ph/3GGyU

Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist.

But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.

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Jarkko Sakkinen

Sometimes lack of skills make one do complex tasks.

I was too lazy to learn how to

1. Package Rust programs to BuildRoot images.
2. Do the necessary fixes [1] and downgrades to get build working.

So as a temporary solution I wrote a TPM emulator :-) It's quite easy task with tpm2-protocol given that it is more like "a socket" than "a client" or "a server" abstraction.

However, now that I've done BuildRoot integration to my kernel testing builds [2], the next logical step is to split some offspring:

1. tpm2-protocol: core crate
2. tpm2sh: client
3. mocktpmd: standalone TPM emulator.

'd' is there so that if I ever want to further split mocktpmd to library and executable my naming conventions will scale ;-)

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/tpm2-protocol.git/commit/?id=4cc0198ee778881efffa658ea2fc65aa5e2c36cf
[2]
https://codeberg.org/jarkko/linux-tpmdd-test/commit/21ade103f9836c7174a8b1c14592928e1c626839

#linux #kernel #tpm #rustlang
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Jarkko Sakkinen

my shitty buildroot kernel testing environment keeps improving as the years pass like a good wine ;-)

#buildroot
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aside from compilation issues with old'ish toolchain the packaging for buildroot is quite nice when it comes to Rust:

https://codeberg.org/jarkko/linux-tpmdd-test/commit/642955a3fa7515c1656bd3ce594dcfb5164b2e43
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and what this gives is factors better debugging environment to fix the remaining external key import issue :-) swtpm dump in the top split
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