[v2] crypto: mscode_parser - remove sha224 authenticode support

Commit Message

Dimitri John Ledkov Oct. 21, 2023, 12:16 a.m. UTC

It is possible to stand up your own certificates and sign PE-COFF
binaries using SHA-224. However it never became popular or needed
since it has similar costs as SHA-256. Windows Authenticode
infrastructure never had support for SHA-224, and all secureboot keys
used for linux vmlinuz have always been using at least SHA-256.

Given the point of mscode_parser is to support interoperability with
typical de-facto hashes, remove support for SHA-224 to avoid the
possibility of creating interoperability issues with rhboot/shim,
grub, and non-linux systems trying to sign or verify vmlinux.

SHA-224 itself is not removed from the kernel, as it is truncated
SHA-256. If requested I can write patches to remove SHA-224 support
across all of the drivers.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[e-mail]>
---

Changes since v1:

 * Correct spelling and grammatical mistakes in the commit
   message. This is a request to replace c1d760a471 ("crypto:
   mscode_parser - remove sha224 authenticode support") in cryptodev
   repository with this one.

 crypto/asymmetric_keys/mscode_parser.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/mscode_parser.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/mscode_parser.c
index 6416bded0e..855cbc46a9 100644
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/mscode_parser.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/mscode_parser.c
@@ -84,9 +84,6 @@  int mscode_note_digest_algo(void *context, size_t hdrlen,
 	case OID_sha512:
 		ctx->digest_algo = "sha512";
 		break;
-	case OID_sha224:
-		ctx->digest_algo = "sha224";
-		break;
 
 	case OID__NR:
 		sprint_oid(value, vlen, buffer, sizeof(buffer));