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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories General/Miscellaneous
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 14, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

End user must be able to handle custom secureboot keys on s390x

On all securebootable platforms end user can
- wipe secureboot keys
- provision own secureboot keys
- reset to stock secureboot keys

And boot bootloader / kernel is only signed by keys that end user controls.

This has many properties of securing systems, even if one signs stock distro provided kernels.
As one may sign only specific revisions of kernels and prevent signed kexec calls to CVE vulnerable older distro kernels.
Or if one needs a (custom) optimized kernel that shall be secure booted.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 16, 2020

    .Thank you again for the submission and usage scenarios. This is actively being discussed for incorporation.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 18, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
    Product - Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
    Component - General/Miscellaneous
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - ISV (Independent Software Vendor)

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
    Product - Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
    Component - HMC/Support Element (SE)
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - ISV (Independent Software Vendor)

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