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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:49:41 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, csjp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Digitally Signed Binaries w/ Kernel support, etc.
Message-ID:  <200804031349.41159.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <47F3DA07.4020209@forrie.com>
References:  <47F3DA07.4020209@forrie.com>

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On Wednesday 02 April 2008 21:09:59 Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Does FreeBSD have support for digitally signed binary checking, similar
> to what Linux has with bsign and DigSig, where system binaries are
> signed and this signature is verified before being run in the kernel?

There is mac_chkexec[1], but I'm not sure about its status.

> This would be very useful to have to further tighen-down the system.

[1]http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/trustedbsd/mac/sys/security/mac%5fchkexec&HIDEDEL=NO

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