Re: [Linux-ima-user] Looking for IMA's user API

[Mimi Z. <zo...@li...>]

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 00:26 +0800, Qingping Hou wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I want to write some program to interact with IMA to see how far I can
> go with this Architecture.
> 
> So my question is are there any user APIs for IMA? If the answer is
> yes, then where can I get related documents?
> 
> Or users are just supposed to play with files lies in
> /sys/kernel/security/ima directory? At least this is what I learn from
> the test programs provided by LTP. ;-)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hou QIngping

Yes, the IMA LTP testsuite is the correct place to look for examples.

Early last year there was some discussion on this mailing list on
extending the template data and adding additional hash algorithms. For
more information look at the archive. (The work was temporarily put on
hold in order to complete the EVM/IMA-appraisal work.)

thanks,

Mimi