[ipxe-devel] https booting

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 07/22/20 16:13, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 03:55:38PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>> How does edk2 handle the root ca problem?
>>>
>>> There are two fw_cfg paths
>>>
>>>   - etc/edk2/https/ciphers
>>>   - etc/edk2/https/cacerts
>>>
>>> The first sets the cipher algorithms that are permitted and their
>>> priority, the second sets the CA certificate bundle.
>>
>> Ok, ipxe should be able to fetch them.  Would be roughly the same as
>> compiling in the certificates, except that they don't take up space in
>> the rom and are much easier to update.
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> What is in cacerts?
>> Basically /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem of the host
>> machine?
> 
> Not that file exactly. Instead
> 
>    /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/edk2/cacerts.bin
> 
> which is the same certs, but in a different format:
> 
> [quote man update-ca-trust]
>        The directory /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/edk2/ contains a
>        CA certificate bundle ("cacerts.bin") in the "sequence of
>        EFI_SIGNATURE_LISTs" format, defined in the UEFI-2.7
>        specification, sections "31.4.1 Signature Database" and
>        "EFI_CERT_X509_GUID". Distrust information cannot be
>        represented in this file format, and distrusted certificates
>        are missing from these files. File "cacerts.bin" contains CA
>        certificates trusted for TLS server authentication.
> [/quote]
> 
> On Fedora/RHEL  the "update-ca-trust" tool creates the file in this
> format automatically now.
> 
> I don't know if that's a useful format for iPXE or not.
> 
> We could easily define etc/ipxe/https/{ciphers,cacerts} paths in a
> different format if better suited for iPXE.

I agree.

The p11-kit extractor for edk2 was implemented in p11-kit commit range ba6ebb05fc0c..de963b96929b:

  https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/commit/59054e4f9fe3
  https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/commit/ee27f9153a14
  https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/commit/de963b96929b

  https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/pull/137
  https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/pull/139

The dependent "update-ca-trust" changes are here:

  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ca-certificates/c/6220683f7640?branch=master
  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ca-certificates/c/34c0da9058d6?branch=master

I think these commits could be used as model for an "iPXE extractor" if necessary.

Thanks,
Laszlo

> Libvirt can set the right
> path depending on whether its booting a VM with EDK2 vs legacy BIOS
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
>