On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:32:19PM +0200, David Kozub wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > I successfully tested toggling the MBR done flag and writing the shadow > > > MBR > > > using some tools I hacked together[4] with a Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive. > > > > Can you submit the tool to util-linux so that we get it into distros? > > There is already Scott's sed-opal-temp[1] and a fork by Jonas that adds > support for older version of these new IOCTLs[2]. There was already some > discussion of getting that to util-linux.[3] > > While I like my hack, sed-opal-temp can do much more (my tool supports just > the few things I actually use). But there are two things which sed-opal-temp > currently lacks which my hack has: > > * It can use a PBKDF2 hash (salted by disk serial number) of the password > rather than the password directly. This makes it compatible with sedutil > and I think it's also better practice (as firmware can contain many > surprises). > > * It contains a 'PBA' (pre-boot authorization) tool. A tool intended to be > run from shadow mbr that asks for a password and uses it to unlock all > disks and set shadow mbr done flag, so after restart the computer boots > into the real OS. > > @Scott: What are your plans with sed-opal-temp? If you want I can update > Jonas' patches to the adapted IOCTLs. What are your thoughts on PW hashing > and a PBA tool?
I will accept any and all patches to sed opal tooling, I am not picky. I will also give up maintainership of it is someone else feels they can (rightfully so) do a better job. Jon sent me a patch for the tool that will deal with writing to the shadow MBR, so once we know these patches are going in i'll pull that patch into the tool. Then I guess that leaves PBKDF2 which I don't think will be too hard to pull in. With regard to your PBA tool, is that actually being run post-uefi/pre-linux? IE are we writing your tool into the SMBR and that's what is being run on bootup? Jon, if you think it's a good idea can you ask David if Revanth or you wants to take over the tooling? Or if anyone else here wants to own it then let me know.
